Actress Angelina Jolie today visited Iraq to meet refugees and US troops, the UN refugee agency said.

Egyptian security troops fired water cannons at hundreds of Sudanese refugees early today and forced them to dismantle a protest camp where they had lived for three months, demanding resettlement outside of Egypt.

The husband of charity chief Margaret Hassan, kidnapped at gunpoint in Baghdad yesterday, made an emotional plea for her release today.

A director of an international charity in Iraq was kidnapped as she was being driven to work in Baghdad today.

Macedonian Government forces pounded rebel strongholds with artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships today despite the resumption of talks between ethnic Albanian and Slav politicians aimed at ending the violence.