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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon says Britain has a duty as an ally to a follow request from America.

President George W Bush has urged national unity following the Hurricane Katrina disaster and invoked the US response to the 9/11 attacks.

The coalition backing the US occupation of Iraq fractured further today as the Dominican Republic said it would withdraw its 300 troops from Iraq, following the retreat led by Spain.

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Equipment and materials used to make nuclear arms could have been vanishing in Iraq since the invasion, the United Nations warned.

Pakistan says more than 73,000 people died in the 8 October quake that devastated its north and Kashmir.

The head of Norway's National Bureau of Crime Investigation (Kripos) is calling for stronger criminal penalties and even new limits on immigration. He claims that's necessary if the country is to gain control over its rising crime rate.

American troops have discovered US military uniforms and suicide explosive belts in an insurgent cache hidden in a house, raising concerns of a new rebel tactic of slipping close to the troops and blowing themselves up.

Moldova's governing pro-Western Communist Party has won parliamentary elections with a reduced majority.

Jailed Indonesian militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has rejected accusations of terrorism, while expressing admiration for al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden, according to the Saudi weekly Al-Majallah.