Japan puts ex-spokesman in charge of nuclear crisis

2011/09/12 12:33:20

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda gave a former government spokesman the cabi...

Kenyan police find 75 bodies in slum fire

2011/09/12 11:59:14

NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an ope...

Police question Strauss-Kahn in French assault case

2011/09/12 10:39:46

PARIS (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by French police on Monday ...

Retired general promises security in Guatemala vote

2011/09/09 00:40:33

SOLOLA, Guatemala (Reuters) - During Guatemala's civil war, Mayan weaver Mari Luisa Chiro was terrif...

Al Qaeda shadow of former self 10 years after 9/11

2011/09/09 00:16:37

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of...

Insight: Tsunami town epitomizes Japan Inc's dilemmas

2011/09/08 20:34:14

KAMAISHI, Japan (Reuters) - After the waters unleashed by Japan's March 11 tsunami receded, Sakae Ku...

Insight: Cisco suits on China rights abuses to test legal reach

2011/09/08 19:36:10

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two lawsuits by three Chinese dissidents and a human rights group accusing Cisco...

Interim PM warns Libya battle not over

2011/09/08 19:13:47

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The man tasked with running the new Libya reminded his forces that the war was n...

Pro-Gaddafi forces kill 17 at Libya oil refinery

2011/09/12 12:19:06

RAS LANUF, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi loyalists killed 17 guards outside an oil refinery on M...

Russia resists Syria sanctions, U.N. says 2,600 dead

2011/09/12 11:49:20

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia rejected on Monday Western calls for wider sanctions on Syria over its vio...

Turkish PM saw Gaza raid as "grounds for war"

2011/09/12 10:06:10

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan saw "grounds for war" with Israel last year...

U.N. boss uses 9/11 to call for global anti-terror treaty

2011/09/09 00:29:01

CANBERRA (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has used the approaching 10th anniversary of September 1...

U.S. accuses Venezuela officials of drug ties

2011/09/08 22:10:43

CARACAS (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday accused four Venezuelan officials of helping to pr...

Insight: China's war on terror widens Xinjiang's ethnic divide

2011/09/08 20:27:29

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - The filthy back alleys and packed mosques of the remote far western Chines...

Syria protesters appeal for help, more bloodshed looms

2011/09/08 19:20:29

AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's opponents broke a taboo by appealing for foreign help ...