China's Xinjiang says "terrorist" ax, knife and arson attack kills 21

2013/04/24 20:30:43

BEIJING (Reuters) - A confrontation involving axes, knives, at least one gun and ending with the bur...

Baghdad car bomb kills eight people: police

2013/04/24 19:17:27

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed and 23 more wounded when a car bomb exploded i...

Bangladesh factory building collapse kills nearly 100

2013/04/24 18:56:00

DHAKA (Reuters) - A block housing garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, ...

Two militants shot dead in Russia's Dagestan

2013/04/24 18:38:45

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Security officers shot dead two suspected militants in Russia's volatile North Ca...

U.S. seeks to ease Afghan-Pakistan tensions in Brussels talks

2013/04/24 18:26:08

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's army chief and a foreign ministry ...

Venezuela opposition accuses government of post-vote vendetta

2013/04/24 18:14:29

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition is accusing state institutions of intimidating and threat...

Analysis: Italy crisis close to an end but problems not over

2013/04/24 17:41:08

ROME (Reuters) - Months of paralyzing political deadlock seem close to an end in Italy with a new go...

France launches push to expose wealthy lawmakers' assets

2013/04/24 17:15:30

PARIS (Reuters) - France unveiled draft legislation on Wednesday aimed at making hundreds of parliam...

Mali's Tuareg rebels reject elections, disarming before talks

2013/04/24 19:50:30

PARIS (Reuters) - Mali's Tuareg separatist rebels dismissed French calls to disarm ahead of July ele...

Italy president names centre-left's Letta as new premier

2013/04/24 18:56:12

ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Wednesday asked center-left politician Enri...

Syrian army seizes strategic town near capital

2013/04/24 18:54:21

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad seized a strategic town east of ...

Embassy attack spreads Libyan instability to capital

2013/04/24 18:34:08

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's central government has long had only a tenuous grip on the eastern city ...

Train plot suspect dismisses Canadian law, cites "holy book"

2013/04/24 18:25:13

TORONTO (Reuters) - One of the two men accused of an al Qaeda-backed plan to d erail a passenger tra...

Iran parks millions of oil barrels on tankers as buyers retreat

2013/04/24 17:50:32

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran is storing millions of barrels of oil on tankers in its territorial waters a...

German SPD says EU can't ditch austerity

2013/04/24 17:20:34

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's opposition Social Democrats (SPD) do not believe the time for debt and ...