Yemen drone strikes, ambushes kill 10

2014/03/03 21:50:10

ADEN (Reuters) - At least four suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in air strikes in Yemen on M...

Jailed opposition leader calls for more Venezuela protests

2014/03/03 21:08:13

CARACAS (Reuters) - Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez urged sympathizers on Monday ...

Cuban dissidents say political arrests top 1,000 in February

2014/03/03 19:40:10

HAVANA (Reuters) - Politically motivated arrests in Cuba topped 1,000 for a third straight month in ...

UAE gives Qatari doctor seven years in jail for backing Islamist group

2014/03/03 18:53:21

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A Qatari physician received a seven-year jail sentence from a court in the Uni...

Mauritanians march over Koran desecration

2014/03/03 18:11:51

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters threw stones and chanted anti-government slogans in Ma...

Ukraine financial fall-out exposes Russia's economic weakness

2014/03/03 16:43:55

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's decision to raise the stakes in Ukraine could cause la...

Italy's Grillo handed four-month sentence over rail protest

2014/03/03 15:50:48

TURIN, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced Beppe Grillo, leader of the anti-establishment 5...

Witness tells Pistorius trial: 'bloodcurdling screams', then four shots

2014/03/03 15:17:25

PRETORIA (Reuters) - The first witness at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial told the court on Monday she...

Algeria's Bouteflika registers for April election

2014/03/03 21:15:00

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday formally registered his candid...

U.N. proposes Central African Republic peacekeeping force

2014/03/03 20:50:41

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday proposed a nearly 12,000-strong peacekeeping...

Islamist militants kill 31 more in northeast Nigeria

2014/03/03 19:03:21

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents have killed at least 31 people in a village in no...

Congo close to defeating Ugandan Islamist rebels: army

2014/03/03 18:13:36

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - An U.N.-backed offensive by Democratic Republic of Co...

Algeria's Bouteflika registers for April election

2014/03/03 18:04:42

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ageing independence veteran who suf...

Ugandan troops to form U.N. guard force in Somalia

2014/03/03 16:28:59

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Uganda will send about 400 extra troops to Somalia to protect U.N. personnel i...

Life and a death sentence in rebel-held Damascus

2014/03/03 15:18:12

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