Musharraf to seek re-election on Oct 6 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will seek re-election on Oct 6, despite legal challenges in the Supreme Court and slumping popularity, officials announced on Thursday.
Lebanon wants poll on schedule Lebanese deputies vowed on Thursday to go ahead with the presidential polls, set to begin next week, despite the car bombing which killed an MP on Wednesday.
Qaeda vows war on Pak An Islamist website said on Thursday it would carry a new video from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in which he declares war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and the Pakistani army.
Court summons Bangla editor over cartoon Bangladesh's top newspaper is in troubled waters after it had published a cartoon which Islamic clerics said was an attempt to sacrilege the religion and Prophet Muhammad.
'Australia spied on US' Australia spied on its ally the United States in the 1980s and stole top-secret radar codes for its fighter jets, former defence minister Kim Beazley said in parliament on Thursday.
A Lebanese youth helps his mother as they cross a street full of debris on Thursday at the site of a car bomb in a Christian suburb of Beirut, which killed anti-Syrian deputy Antoine Ghanem.
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