Turkey considers Syria border buffer zone

2012/03/16 09:46:55

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Friday it might set up a border "buffer zone" to protect growing n...

Afghanistan's Karzai slams United States over massacre

2012/03/16 09:43:03

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday lashed out at the United States for failin...

Sound and fury of French election matters for markets

2012/03/16 09:21:58

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors looking through the fog of French election campaign rhetoric see enough...

Indian police say Delhi, Bangkok blasts linked

2012/03/16 07:41:24

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have established a link between a bomb that wounded an Israeli d...

Swiss woman kidnapped in Yemen: interior ministry

2012/03/16 06:00:41

SANAA (Reuters) - Armed tribesmen have kidnapped a Swiss woman in western Yemen and are demanding th...

U.S.-Korea free trade pact takes effect amid controversy

2012/03/15 04:52:40

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long-delayed U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) that has stirred c...

U.S. commander defends moving massacre soldier out of Afghanistan

2012/03/15 03:58:58

KABUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. commander defended on Thursday moving a U.S. soldier accused of slau...

Exclusive: Japan's Ozawa warns PM against pushing sales tax hike

2012/03/15 02:48:43

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese ruling party heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa threatened to vote against sales ta...

Swiss bus crash bodies flown home as Belgium mourns

2012/03/16 09:44:24

BRUSSELS/SION, Switzerland (Reuters) - Belgian military aircraft brought home the bodies of 22 child...

Exclusive: Congo under scrutiny over Hezbollah business links

2012/03/16 09:40:30

LONDON (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has awarded lucrative forestry concessions  to a co...

Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury to step down

2012/03/16 08:06:06

LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Anglican Com...

North Korea's plan for rocket launch stirs regional concern

2012/03/16 07:02:30

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it will launch a long-range rocket carrying a "working"...

Army gains ground on anniversary of Syria uprising

2012/03/15 05:09:35

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria marked the first anniversary on Thursday of an increasingly bloody uprising...

China leader's ouster roils succession plans

2012/03/15 04:41:54

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ambitious Chinese Communist Party leadership contender Bo Xilai has been toppled...

Swiss couple escape from Pakistan Taliban captivity

2012/03/15 03:43:02

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Swiss couple kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban last July say they...