Youthful premier seeks mandate in Jamaica election

2011/12/29 09:41:29

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaicans cast ballots on Thursday in a closely contested general election as P...

Gunman shoots MSF aid workers in Mogadishu: police

2011/12/29 09:12:10

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead a foreign aid worker and wounded another at a Medecins Sans...

North Korea hails nuclear, military feats of Kim Jong-il

2011/12/29 08:07:09

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea lauded the military might built up by deceased leader Kim Jong-il on T...

Insight: Islamist attacks strain Nigeria's north-south divide

2011/12/29 07:11:35

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - The line dividing Christians from Muslims that runs along a rocky valley in...

Seven suspected kidnappers killed in China's restive west

2011/12/28 20:46:00

BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in China's far-western Xinjiang region shot and killed seven "kidnappers ...

Arab observers fan out across Syria

2011/12/28 19:35:23

(Reuters) - Arab monitors head to three more Syrian cities on Thursday to check if government forces...

U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow Hormuz disruption

2011/12/28 17:23:59

TEHRAN/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it would not allow any disruption of...

Turkey warns France of more action over genocide bill

2011/12/28 15:40:31

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey Wednesday warned France it would take further action against Paris should ...

Analysis: U.S. trip gives Saleh neither immunity nor exile

2011/12/29 09:39:53

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's request to be let into the United States sho...

Two French soldiers shot dead by rogue Afghan soldier

2011/12/29 08:31:58

PARIS (Reuters) - Two French soldiers were killed on Thursday when an Afghan army soldier shot at th...

Iran warns U.S. over Strait of Hormuz

2011/12/29 07:41:19

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Thursday that the United ...

Yangon blast kills 17, injures 80: Myanmar police

2011/12/28 20:55:14

YANGON (Reuters) - At least 17 people died and 80 were injured in an early morning explosion at an i...

Mexico arrests drug dealer linked to boss Guzman

2011/12/28 20:29:40

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico captured a suspected drug trafficker with links to the country's most...

Anti-whaling protest ship in Southern Ocean distress

2011/12/28 18:53:34

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Anti-whaling organization Sea Shepherd said one of its boats chasing the Japanese...

Seven hurt as bomb hits madrassa in Nigeria

2011/12/28 16:31:44

PORT HARCOURT/JOS (Reuters) - Assailants threw a homemade bomb into a madrassa in southern Nigeria's...