World News: General

Seoul, November 06 (ANI):South Korea's National Assembly ratified a trade deal with India, the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA),during a regular parliamentary session on Friday that would eliminate or reduce tariffs on over 4,400 South Korean export items.

Madagascar's leader stormed out of internationally mediated power-sharing talks in the early hours of Friday, threatening to derail attempts to form a national unity government and end months of turmoil.

Malawi threatened on Thursday to arrest protesting villagers blocking construction of Madonna's multi-million dollar girls academy, a new controversy for the singer in the African country where she has adopted two children.

California legislators on Wednesday struck a truce in their water wars that could set off the biggest spending spree on water in half a century and aims to satisfy environmentalists, unemployed farmers and the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday.

Hamas rockets fired from the Gaza Strip can reach Tel Aviv and the Islamist group has replenished and improved its arsenal since a war with Israel nearly a year ago, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.

Jews took over another house in Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday in what Palestinians say is a systematic campaign to drive them out and strengthen Israel's hold on all of Jerusalem.

Tanzania's high court has sentenced four men to death by hanging for killing a 50-year-old albino man, local media reported late on Monday.

When Ethiopia's opposition leaders were freed from jail in 2007, the three most prominent were hailed by fanatical supporters as leaders-in-waiting for sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous nation.

The United Nations said on Monday it would cut support for some units of Congo's armed forces amid allegations that the U.N.-backed soldiers had killed, raped and mutilated hundreds of civilians.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards, who helped to quell protests after last June's election, warned the opposition on Monday not to use anti-U.S. rallies this week to stage new demonstrations.

The United Nations will suspend support for Congolese army units that it believes deliberately killed over 60 civilians in joint operations this year, U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said in an interview aired Monday.

The United Nations will suspend operational support for certain Democratic Republic of Congo army units it believes have deliberately killed more than 60 civilians this year, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said in an interview aired on Monday.

A powerful blast occurred outside a hotel in a high-security area near the Pakistan Army's headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi today, killing at least 10 people and injuring several others.

Iran has freed two prominent allies of pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi on bail, Iranian media said on Sunday, including a female journalist who reportedly went on hunger strike last week.

A bicycle loaded with explosives killed five people and wounded 37 at a market in Mussayab, south of Baghdad, on Sunday and a bomb on a bus killed at least three more further south in Kerbala, police and health officials said.

A cargo aircraft crashed soon after taking off from the eastern Russian city of Mirny in Yakutia region, killing all 11 people on board, Russian prosecutors said on Sunday.

(Corrects city of crash to Mirny from Yakutsk)
A cargo aircraft crashed soon after taking off from the eastern Russian city of Mirny, killing all 11 people on board, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.

A bicycle loaded with explosives killed at least four people and wounded 35 at a popular market on Sunday in the town of Mussayab, south of Baghdad, police said.