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End of mission ceremony for Azerbaijani peacekeepers has been held in Camp Ripper near Al Asad, Iraq today.

Contingent of Azerbaijani Armed Forces had served in Iraq with the international coalition forces since August 15, 2003. Azerbaijani peacekeepers protected Al-Haditha water reservoir and hydropower plant supplying 30 percent of Iraq with electricity. 1 Azerbaijani peacekeeper was killed in Iraq.

150 servicemen - 14 officers, 16 ensigns and 120 soldiers served in Azerbaijani contingent in Iraq. They were rotated every six months.

Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce new higher denomination banknotes of up to Z$100 million, as it battles to contain hyperinflation.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in New Delhi as Washington seeks to ease tensions in the region following the deadly Mumbai attacks.

Dec. 2 - Tens of thousands gather in Chabad Village, Israel for the funeral of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Ribka murdered during the attacks in Mumbai, India.. After the funeral, mourners processed to ...

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell says the terrorist group U.S. intelligence believes carried out last week's attack in Mumbai is the same one that attacked Mumbai trains in 2006.

The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.

The United States, meanwhile, called on Pakistan to fully co-operate with investigations into the attack, which India has blamed on a banned Pakistani militant group.

Dec 1 - A former beauty queen in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa is promoting safe sex by serving coffee orders hat her cafe with a side-order of free condoms.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan must provide complete cooperation as India seeks answers in last week's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, an important Indian financial hub.

Rice says she will not jump to conclusions but that Pakistan must let the evidence lead wherever it takes the investigators. Indian authorities are pointing fingers at Pakistan, a longtime rival. Pakistan denies involvement in the attacks.

President George W. Bush has dispatched Rice to New Delhi to express U.S. condolences directly to the Indian government. Nearly 200 people died in the attacks.

The only gunman captured after the 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said.

The gunman was one of 10 who paralyzed the city in an attack that killed at least 174 people and revealed the weakness of India's security apparatus. India's top law enforcement official resigned Sunday, bowing to growing criticism that the attackers appeared better trained, better coordinated and better armed than police.

President Hugo Chavez asked supporters Sunday to petition for a constitutional amendment that would let him seek indefinite re-election and buy more time to build a socialist economy in Venezuela.

Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, is barred from running again when his current term expires in 2013. He sought to abolish term limits last year, but Venezuelan voters rejected the bid, voting down a package of proposed constitutional changes.

'Last year, when we lost the referendum, I said I should accept the majority's decision,' the former paratroop commander told a crowd of red-clad government supporters at a rally in Caracas. But now, he added, 'I say you were right: Chavez will not go.'

Australians are closely following the trial of five Muslims charged with plotting a terrorist attack on Australian soil.

Cruel sea ... although 80 whales died on shore rocks, a pod of 30 pilot whales were saved.

Four former Yugoslav countries on Saturday signed a joint statement in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, pledging to intensify police cooperation in the fight against organized crime, terrorism and corruption.

Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years.

The head of the anti-sealing group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is shrugging off a statement of claim filed last week by the federal Fisheries Department against one of his vessels.

Fourteen people were killed and over 90, including four women, sustained injuries while 15 vehicles were torched in separate incidents of violence here on Saturday.

The New Zealand government is to send an air force Orion to keep tabs on Japanese whalers this season.