Large majority of Germans see SPD backing Merkel coalition: poll

2013/11/29 10:03:25

BERLIN (Reuters) - Roughly three out of four Germans expect grassroots members of the Social Democra...

Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan sign landmark energy contracts

2013/11/29 09:32:49

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan signed a package of landmark contracts earlier this we...

'Security' swimming pool lands South Africa's Zuma in hot water

2013/11/29 08:40:58

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's top official anti-graft watchdog is recommending President J...

India accelerates Iranian port project after U.S.-Iran thaw

2013/11/29 08:30:54

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - - India is sending a team to Iran to speed up work on a port that will provide...

Chinese paper says Islamists seek to ban TV, singing

2013/11/29 06:49:46

BEIJING (Reuters) - Islamists in China's far western region of Xinjiang are seeking to ban televisio...

Nicaraguan committee passes change to remove presidential term limits

2013/11/29 03:40:27

MANAGUA (Reuters) - A Nicaraguan parliamentary committee on Thursday approved a constitutional chang...

Afghanistan's Karzai stands alone in high-stakes game with U.S.

2013/11/29 02:17:32

KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai's stubborn refusal to sign a pact that would keep thousands...

Mexico leftists exit pact, raising hope for deeper energy reform

2013/11/29 01:27:16

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's main leftist party said on Thursday it had pulled out of a cross-pa...

Media tycoon Saban says dreams of Hillary Clinton as U.S. president

2013/11/29 10:00:12

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli-American media tycoon Haim Saban, a major donor to the U.S. Democratic...

China military sends air patrols through new defense zone

2013/11/29 09:30:38

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China sent several fighter jets and an early warning aircraft into it...

Huge Bangladesh fire destroys key garments factory

2013/11/29 08:33:52

DHAKA (Reuters) - A huge fire on Friday destroyed a Bangladesh garment factory supplying key Western...

Analysis: Déjà vu with a difference as Thai PM faces down protesters

2013/11/29 08:24:10

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The French have the best phrase for Thailand's turbulent politics: déjà vu.

NATO-led force in Afghanistan to probe airstrike said to have killed child

2013/11/29 06:18:34

KABUL (Reuters) - The NATO-led force in Afghanistan said it would investigate Thursday's airstrike i...

U.S. military: 'improvised launch device' found near Air Force base in Japan

2013/11/29 02:20:19

TOKYO (Reuters) - An "improvised launch device" was found outside the United States' Yokota Air Forc...

More than 40 killed in depot blast in Libya, more clashes in east

2013/11/29 01:57:57

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed on Thursday in an explosion at a...