Brunei adopts sharia law, others in region consider it

2014/04/29 23:02:51

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The sultanate of Brunei this week becomes the first East Asian country to i...

UK PM Cameron faces vote test after lawmaker's resignation

2014/04/29 22:33:08

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron faces a potentially awkward test of voter su...

Seeking deals, France rolls out red carpet for Angolan leader

2014/04/29 21:56:24

PARIS (Reuters) - French officials welcomed Angola's president on Tuesday for the first time in 20 y...

Firm says finds plane debris in Bay of Bengal: CNN

2014/04/29 21:24:49

(Reuters) - A private company said it had found what it believes is wreckage of a plane in the Bay o...

Seven dead after blasts at Siberia munition depot: statement

2014/04/29 20:48:26

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Seven people died and four were missing on Tuesday after blasts at a munition dep...

European human rights body says Azerbaijan must stop pressure on activists

2014/04/29 19:40:24

BAKU (Reuters) - A European rights monitor urged Azerbaijan authorities on Tuesday to ensure that fr...

Gunmen storm Libyan parliament, stop lawmakers' vote on next PM

2014/04/29 19:25:20

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed Libya's parliament on Tuesday and opened fire, forcing lawmakers ...

Italy court says Knox murdered flatmate over argument, not orgy

2014/04/29 18:56:14

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - The Italian court that found American student Amanda Knox guilty of murd...

Secularist underdogs fight to be heard in Iraq election

2014/04/29 22:48:33

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - "I am Iraqi, so do I exist?" is the question posed on the Civil Democratic Allia...

Chemical watchdog to investigate Syria chlorine gas claims

2014/04/29 22:01:13

AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syri...

Fire at Russian munitions depot kills 7, halts Transsiberian railway

2014/04/29 21:41:42

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Explosions caused by a fire at a munitions depot in Eastern Siberia killed at lea...

Mozambique extends registration deadline for election

2014/04/29 21:00:01

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique has extended voter registration for elections due in October by 10 day...

Merkel urges Germans to think of Ukraine and vote in EU ballot

2014/04/29 20:12:23

BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel opened her conservatives' European election campaign with an appeal...

Belgium should avoid new world record of post-election crisis

2014/04/29 19:30:02

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Temuraz Sadoyan has no strong view on whether Belgium should split, but he is c...

U.N. renews Western Sahara mission, but without rights monitors

2014/04/29 19:19:30

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council renewed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disp...