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The Iraqi foreign minister says all Turkish soldiers involved in an offensive against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) inside northern Iraq, have withdrawn into Turkey.
Hoshyar Zebari said that the withdrawal took place before dawn on Friday.
Turkey sent thousands of troops on February 21, with the stated aim of battling fighters using the region as a [...]

The Maritime Self-Defense Force canceled all drills nationwide Thursday to re-educate personnel in the hope of heading off further collisions like the one last week in which a destroyer ran over a trawler, claiming the lives of its father-son crew, Maritime Staff Office officials said.
The two-day retraining program covers all personnel of surface vessels, submarines [...]

BEIJING — Chinese authorities said Thursday their investigation shows there is little chance that pesticide-tainted “gyoza” dumplings blamed for sickening at least 10 people in Japan were contaminated in China, and one top official cited a lack of cooperation by Japanese police.
Japanese police previously said they are convinced the gyoza were contaminated in China because [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wilbur Ross agreed to buy up to $1 billion in shares of bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGO.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the company said on Friday, giving the billionaire investor a key foothold in the struggling market.
Under the agreement, WL Ross & Co LLC, the private equity firm founded by Ross, [...]

Iraq’s presidency council has approved the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin and senior official under executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a senior Iraqi official says.
Al-Majid was nicknamed “Chemical Ali” for overseeing the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the Operation Anfal campaign in 1988.
The official said no date has been fixed for [...]

Rival leaders in Kenya have agreed to form a coalition government after weeks of nationwide violence and political unrest.
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who has been mediating talks between the government and the opposition, said on Thursday that an agreement had been made, ending the political crisis.
“We have come to an understanding on the [...]

As the United States continues to nudge it to conclude the civil nuclear deal at the earliest, India on Thursday said it is aware of the time-table but negotiations take its own time.
“We are not looking at a deadline. We know the time-table, we know what to do,” Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Japan on Wednesday that Washington is ready to remove political sanctions on North Korea in order to move on to the next phase of denuclearization.
Her remarks came as chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill extended his stay in Beijing this week for further discussions.
“North Korea now needs [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the second-biggest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Thursday said its loss widened more than expected to $2.5 billion in the fourth quarter as the housing crises worsened.
The government-chartered company said the net loss increased from $401 million in the year-earlier period. It is [...]

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra made an emotional return from exile on Thursday, preaching reconciliation and forgiveness in a country still polarized by his five years in elected office.
“We can certainly have various opinions on various things, but we shall not be divided,” the former telecoms tycoon told a packed news [...]