Eleven children killed in latest Chinese bus crash

2012/12/24 12:49:17

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 11 Chinese kindergarten children died when their minivan plunged into a...

Russia investigates protest leader for theft of party funds

2012/12/24 11:08:38

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have opened a third criminal inves tigation into opposition l...

Syrian rebels fight for strategic town in Hama province

2012/12/21 14:50:18

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels began to push into a strategic town in Syria's central Hama province on Th...

Clashes as Egyptian Islamists stage rally

2012/12/21 14:25:09

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Supporters of President Mohamed Mursi and his opponents hurled rocks a...

Iraqi Sunnis accuse Maliki of crackdown, tensions flare

2012/12/21 13:59:34

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni leaders in Iraq accused Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of a crackdo...

Gunmen in deadly attack on Ivory Coast security targets

2012/12/21 13:25:01

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked military and police targets around Ivory Coast's main city Abidj...

Analysis: Allies to lose socialist patron if Venezuela's Chavez goes

2012/12/21 07:05:53

CARACAS (Reuters) - Murals adorning a Caracas slum that has given militant backing to President Hugo...

Thousands seek shelter as cyclone batters Fiji

2012/12/17 08:59:16

CANBERRA (Reuters) - More than 3,500 people evacuated to emergency shelters in Fiji as the biggest c...

Ukraine central banker named first deputy prime minister

2012/12/24 11:45:03

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Monday named Serhiy Arbuzov - who has unti...

Russian lawmakers back adoption ban in row with U.S.

2012/12/21 14:53:20

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament approved a law banning Americans from adopting...

Italy Prime Minister Monti resignation expected on Friday

2012/12/21 14:48:31

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will hand in his resignation to President Giorgi...

Tribal violence kills 39 in Kenya

2012/12/21 14:20:27

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Thirty-nine people, including several children, were killed in tribal vio...

South Africa's soothing Ramaphosa leads ANC charm offensive

2012/12/21 13:30:25

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC put its new No. 2 Cyril Ramaphosa a...

Why scandal-tinged Berlusconi still beloved of many Italians

2012/12/21 13:10:02

ROME (Reuters) - They call themselves "the club". A doctor, a business-owner, pensioners and enginee...

Japan's next PM piles pressure on BOJ, vows to resolve China row

2012/12/17 09:08:00

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's next Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a landslide election victory, pi...