Wellington - Pro-democracy campaigners, including three men facing sedition charges, made a clean sweep in the "commoners' vote" at a general election in the Pacific island feudal kingdom of Tonga,

Vilnius - European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering on Thursday urged Lithuania to meet its energy commitments to the European Union.

Harare/Johannesburg - A senior US official called for the United

Damascus - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad revealed that Israel has sent a message to Damascus through Turkey that it would withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for peace, a Qatar-based newsp

Copenhagen - The Danish parliament Thursday ratified the European Union reform treaty with a clear majority - 90 to 25.

Vienna/Budapest  - The Chief Executive of Austrian energy firm OMV said Thursday that his company would not back off from plans to takeover Hungarian peer MOL after OMV failed to block any of the M