KATE EMERY and STUART McKINNON, The West Australian March 3, 2010, 6:12 am UPDATE 7.30am: Chalice Gold Mines has confirmed plans to acquire an option to buy the remaining 20 per cent of the Zara gold project in Eritrea it does not already own from joint venture partner Dragon Mining. Under the terms of the $16.2 million cash and scrip deal foreshadowed in The West Australian today, Chalice... 

  Pakistani police submitted terrorism charges against five young Americans on Tuesday. The students, from the U.S. state of Virginia, were detained in the town of Sargodha in December. They were accused of contacting militants over the Internet and plotting attacks. They have not been formally charged as of yet, but police submitted a charge sheet in an anti-terrorist court in Sargodha on... 

Travel Warning United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Washington, DC 20520 This information is current as of today, document.write(Date()+".") Tue Mar 02 2010 12:54:06 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time). ERITREA March 02, 2010 The U.S. Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Eritrea and recommends that U.S. citizens defer all travel... 

An embroidered traditional dress from Eritrea was a surprise to many of the students. More than 200 sixth graders at Graham Junior High toured the Middle East without leaving Graham last week by looking through exhibits in the General Tommy Franks Traveling Road Show. Ben Burgess, left, Tyler Dozier, middle, and Emmanuel Lucio look at an antique cap and ball pistol from Afghanistan while touring.   Taking... 

  By Jason McLure March 2 (Bloomberg) — An Ethiopian opposition candidate was stabbed to death by six unidentified men in an attack described by government opponents as part of an intimidation campaign by the ruling party ahead of elections in May. Aregawi Gebre-Yohannes was killed this morning at a restaurant he operates near his home in the northern region of Tigray, Gebru Asrat,...