Car bomb kills eight near Turkey's border with Syria

2012/08/20 17:51:51

HAKKARI, Turkey (Reuters) - A car bomb a senior Turkish politician blamed on Kurdish separatists exp...

Analysis: Afghanistan's peace hopes may rest on Taliban captive

2012/08/20 16:30:39

KABUL (Reuters) - In the cloistered circles of the Taliban high command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar ...

U.N. monitors pull out of Syria

2012/08/20 06:13:05

BEIRUT (Reuters) - United Nations military observers left Damascus on Monday after a four-month miss...

China's Gu Kailai gets suspended death sentence

2012/08/20 06:07:28

HEFEI, China (Reuters) - China sentenced the wife of fallen Politburo member Bo Xilai to death on Mo...

German politicians say no leeway for Greece on reforms

2012/08/20 04:24:39

BERLIN (Reuters) - Senior German politicians stepped up the pressure on Greece to stick to its refor...

Park wins South Korean conservatives presidential nomination

2012/08/20 03:02:14

GOYANG, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea's ruling conservatives picked Park Geun-hye, the daughte...

Japan says disputed islands should not hurt key China ties

2012/08/19 23:59:23

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan urged China on Monday to protect its citizens after anti-Japanese protests r...

Syria's Assad makes rare appearance for Eid prayers

2012/08/19 12:26:40

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made his first appearance in public since a July...

Mali forms new caretaker government

2012/08/20 17:13:01

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore approved a new transitional government...

Myanmar government abolishes direct media censorship

2012/08/20 06:19:52

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar abolished direct media censorship on Monday, the latest dramatic reform b...

Workers at South African mine trickle back to work after 44 killed

2012/08/20 06:09:02

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A quarter of the workforce returned on Monday to the Marikana platinum mine...

Two Turkish soldiers killed in suspected PKK attack

2012/08/20 06:02:59

KIRIKDAG, Turkey (Reuters) - Two Turkish soldiers were killed by a landmine on a road in southeast T...

New Zealand PM says to move forward Afghan withdrawal

2012/08/20 04:20:00

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will accelerate the withdrawal of its soldiers from Afghanistan a...

Insight: Somalia's old problems litter path to new future

2012/08/20 02:33:14

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Yusuf Garaad left his comfortable home and job as head of the BBC Somali Servi...

China court to give verdict in Gu Kailai murder trial

2012/08/19 13:13:12

HEFEI, China (Reuters) - A Chinese court will deliver its verdict on Monday against Gu Kailai, the w...