Syria faces mounting pressure on aid, rights abuses

2012/03/05 18:35:46

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad faces growing pressure for blocking humanitarian...

More than half of Americans back Obama's Koran apology

2012/03/05 17:42:48

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans support President Barack Obama's apology for U.S....

China lead pollution poisons 160 children: report

2012/03/03 22:26:53

BEIJING (Reuters) - Lead emission from factories and the natural environment in China's manufacturin...

Putin set to reclaim the Kremlin in Russian vote

2012/03/03 22:11:34

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin is almost certain to win a third presidential term in...

Fourteen killed in Polish head-on train collision

2012/03/03 21:39:20

SZCZECHOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed when two passenger trains collided h...

Victims' families want truth at Italy shipwreck hearing

2012/03/03 15:44:55

GROSSETO, Italy (Reuters) - Survivors and relatives of victims of the Costa Concordia shipwreck clam...

Four dead in south Yemen blasts, al Qaeda blamed

2012/03/03 12:44:20

SANAA (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers drove a car packed with explosives into a Yemeni army base in ...

U.N. chief speaks of "grisly reports" from Syria

2012/03/02 18:15:24

BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received "grisly re...

U.S. defends killing Americans who join al Qaeda

2012/03/05 18:05:07

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration asserted on Monday a right to kill Americans overseas w...

Hundreds of anti-Putin protesters detained in Russia

2012/03/05 15:37:59

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police detained more than 500 protesters including opposition leader...

China boosts defense budget by 11.2 percent for 2012

2012/03/03 22:14:28

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will boost military spending by 11.2 percent this year, the government sai...

Syrian forces pound Homs, tanks deploy in east

2012/03/03 22:01:14

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of parts of the shattered city of Homs an...

In Greece, redundancy tips factory worker over the edge

2012/03/03 16:41:50

KOMOTINI, Greece (Reuters) - After more than 30 years as a factory worker, Dimitris Manikas was drea...

Sarkozy courts French right with immigration pledge

2012/03/03 14:15:54

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked a rightward shift in his re-election campa...

Venezuela publishes photos of Chavez with Fidel

2012/03/02 21:51:13

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela published photographs on Friday of President Hugo Chavez chatting with...