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A suicide car-bomber has killed at least eight people in an attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, officials have said.
01/12/2008
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Hugo Chavez has said that he is directing his United Socialist party (PSUV) to seek a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be re-elected an unlimted number of times.
01/12/2008
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Romania's parliamentary election appears too close to call with exit polls showing the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 90 per cent of the vote counted.
01/12/2008
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Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia's most high profile former hostage, has returned to the country to launch a regional tour in support of kidnap victims.
01/12/2008
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North Korea has started restricting border crossings with the South, military officials say.
01/12/2008
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Shivraj Patil, the Indian home minister, has resigned over the terror attacks in Mumbai that left around 174 people dead.
30/11/2008
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Police in Thailand have issued a new warning to anti-government protesters occupying Bangkok's Don Mueang airport, stating that any person refusing to leave the site could be jailed or fined.
30/11/2008
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The 12 remaining peacekeepers in the troubled Philippines province of Mindanao are to leave the area, despite government appeals for them to stay.
30/11/2008
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Parliamentary polls in Romania have opened with Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu's Liberals under threat of losing control of power.
30/11/2008
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The siege at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel is over after security forces killed the remaining armed men inside the building.
29/11/2008
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Anti-government protesters have forced several dozen Thai riot police to abandon a checkpoint, tightening their siege of the country's main airport, witnesses say.
29/11/2008
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Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, has defended his country's military assault on breakaway South Ossetia in August, saying Russian forces had invaded Georgia and its citizens were in danger.
29/11/2008
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Indian commandos have ended the siege at a Jewish centre in Mumbai, while fighting raged at a hotel in the city two days after the Indian commercial capital came under co-ordinated attacks.
28/11/2008
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Riot police with truncheons and shields have gathered at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi airport after talks with anti-government protesters apparently failed to end a crippling blockade.
28/11/2008
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Foreign troops in Afghanistan have opened fire at a vehicle outside the capital Kabul, killing at least one civilian, police officers say.
28/11/2008
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