Restart date unclear for Venezuela refinery hit by blast

2012/08/29 20:56:10

CARACAS (Reuters) - A restart to production at Venezuela's largest oil refinery, closed since Saturd...

Australia says six rescued, more than 140 missing from asylum boat

2012/08/29 20:15:18

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers have pulled six people from the sea off Indonesia but authorities have g...

"Miscommunication" creates Amsterdam plane hijack scare

2012/08/29 08:25:00

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Miscommunication between a Spanish airline pilot and Dutch ground control caus...

China defense chief plans rare India trip, to discuss border

2012/08/29 08:15:16

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China's defense minister is due to visit India next week to seek deeper milita...

Egypt puts former presidential candidate Shafik on watch list

2012/08/29 08:10:22

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt placed former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik on a watch list at border ...

Turkey urges U.N. to protect refugees inside Syria

2012/08/29 07:55:43

ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey urged the United Nations on Wednesday to protect displaced Syrians ...

West urges Arabs not to target Israel at U.N. nuclear meet

2012/08/29 05:53:39

VIENNA (Reuters) - Western envoys are urging Arab states not to berate Israel over its assumed nucle...

Dozens die in China bus crash

2012/08/25 23:07:28

BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus collided with a methanol tanker in northwest China early on Sunday and bur...

Abuse allegations mount against flagship Afghan police force

2012/08/29 20:37:47

CHAR DARAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fahima had just arrived home from school when members of the Afg...

Three Australian soldiers killed by rogue Afghan soldier

2012/08/29 20:02:24

KABUL (Reuters) - Three Australian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday by a gu...

Hollande spurs action on jobs plan as ratings slip

2012/08/29 08:16:27

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is fast-tracking the introduction of a program to tackle ram...

U.N. nuclear watchdog sets up "Iran Task Force"

2012/08/29 08:11:01

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations' nuclear watchdog has set up a specialized Iran Task Force to ...

Giant Japan offshore quake could kill 320,000: government

2012/08/29 08:02:24

TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake as big as the one that jolted northern Japan last year could kill mo...

Tymoshenko loses appeal, stays in Ukraine jail

2012/08/29 07:08:26

KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian high court rejected an appeal on Wednesday by former Prime Minister Yul...

Caucasus suicide bomber named as Russian widow

2012/08/29 05:14:33

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An ethnic Russian woman, who was both wife and widow of Islamist militants, was n...