Iran demands access to accused U.S. plotter

2011/10/16 16:10:32

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran demanded consular access on Sunday to a man held in the United States over a...

Thai PM confident Bangkok will escape worst of floods

2011/10/14 02:34:03

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra tried to reassure residents of Bangkok o...

Journalist car blows up during Barroso Bulgaria visit

2011/10/14 02:09:39

SOFIA (Reuters) - A bomb blew up the car of a popular Bulgarian journalist late Thursday in Sofia, c...

Behind closed doors, China leaders to ponder big choices

2011/10/14 01:16:47

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top leaders convene for their latest secretive conclave on Saturday, giv...

Obama says Iran to face toughest possible sanctions

2011/10/13 23:00:48

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Iran on Thursday it would face the toughest pos...

Twenty killed in Syrian clashes, EU sanctions bank

2011/10/13 15:52:06

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in renewed fighting in Syria on Thursday, an activ...

Saudis, U.S. trade charges with Iran over plot

2011/10/12 14:56:08

WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and the United States traded charges with Iran Wednesday ...

Gaddafi loyalists in two small pockets of Sirte

2011/10/12 14:27:58

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - - Fighters loyal to deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are now holding o...

Strauss-Kahn asks to speak to prostitution investigators

2011/10/16 13:27:31

PARIS (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn wants to speak to investigators looking in...

Berlusconi faces confidence vote; seen surviving for now

2011/10/14 02:32:53

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to scrape through a vote of co...

Insight: Investment prospects luring Myanmar in from cold

2011/10/14 01:53:50

YANGON (Reuters) - In a remote prison in Myanmar's northernmost state, comedian and dissident Maung ...

Big quake strikes PNG, no report of damage

2011/10/13 23:38:03

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck Friday near a major town in the Pac...

French Strauss-Kahn sex assault probe dropped

2011/10/13 15:56:35

PARIS (Reuters) - French public prosecutors dropped an investigation on Thursday into a writer's acc...

Israel-Palestinian swap due in Sinai next week

2011/10/13 14:00:14

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be freed from five years of captivity in the ...

Quake debris clean-up at halfway point in Haiti: U.N.

2011/10/12 14:45:47

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Workers have removed about half of the twisted piles of concrete, steel a...