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By JPOST.COM STAFF Though significant progress has been made in negotiations to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, a prisoner exchange deal has not yet been reached, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Sunday.

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- At least 26 people died Sunday when a ferry sank off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and an unknown number of people were missing, officials said.

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Romanian President Traian Basescu will face opposition leader Mircea Geoana in a Dec. 6 run-off election that will determine who selects the next government and helps pull the nation out of recession.

One hundred and four men have died and hopes are fading for four who are still trapped after an explosion ripped through a colliery in northern China.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh becomes US President Barack Obama's first state guest during a three-day visit to Washington beginning November 23.

Sri Lanka has pledged to free 136000 Tamil civilians held in internment camps by December 1 and close the controversial facilities by the end of January.

The fire stress has eased for farmers in Central West NSW, with emergency warnings have now been lifted for fires burning between Lake Windemere and the western edges of Kandos and Rylstone.

A former Taliban fighter hands over his arms to join government troops in Herat. Photograph: Reza Shirmohammadi/AFP/Getty Images US special forces are supporting anti-Taliban militias in at least 14 areas of Afghanistan as part of a secretive programme ...

Professor Bob Watson, chief scientists at the department for environment and rural affairs. Photograph: University of East Anglia Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have ...

PHOTO: PTI A child injured in a bomb blast being treated at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital on Sunday. - Guwahati: Seven people were killed and 55, including minor children, injured in two bicycle-bomb blasts in Nalbari, headquarters town of lower ...

A former Iranian vice-president has been sentenced to six years in jail after being accused of inciting unrest following the country's presidential elections in June.

KABUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai could invite militants to attend a "Loya Jirga", or grand council meeting, aiming to seek peace and reconciliation with the Taliban, a spokesman said on Sunday.

Wind and rain are still battering Cumbria in northern England, putting more bridges at risk and leaving flood-hit locals isolated and without services.

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND AP President Shimon Peres discussed the Arab-Israeli peace process on Sunday, saying, "The minute we shall start to negotiate, there won't be new settlements, there won't be confiscation of land.

Herman Van Rompuy, Europe's first president, is to join forces with the European Commission to push for sweeping new tax raising powers for Brussels.

The herd of camels took 20 months to travel to Melbourne from Katherine in the Northern Territory. (Supplied) A camel expedition, raising money for the foundation that is caring for Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna, arrived at Melbourne's Royal ...

The deep hostility of Britain's senior military commanders in Iraq towards their American allies has been revealed in classified Government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph.

Dissident republicans in Northern Ireland are being blamed for planting a 180-kilogram bomb in a car abandoned outside the headquarters of the police watchdog in Belfast.