Plea for Release of U.S. Reporters Held in N. Korea

2009/06/01 01:32:38

For weeks after North Korean guards seized Laura Ling and Euna Lee near the border with China and sp...

Geithner tells China its dollar assets are safe

2009/06/01 01:05:35

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese governm...

Cracks show in Bulgaria's Muslim ethnic model

2009/05/31 19:17:27

KRUMOVGRAD, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Twenty years after Bulgaria's then-Communist regime mounted an offi...

Pakistan: Swat Valley Ops Have Met 'Almost Complete Success'

2009/05/31 12:49:00

People trapped at home for weeks emerged in search of food at barren shops while corpses lay exposed...

Pakistanis secure Swat town, clash in other areas

2009/05/31 11:46:31

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani forces consolidated their hold on the main town in the Swat valley o...

Tunisia asks Washington to hand over two detainees

2009/05/31 11:20:13

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia has asked the United States to hand over two men from the North African co...

Afghan presidential hopeful vows to create PM post

2009/05/31 11:07:11

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan presidential hopeful and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah said he ...

Approval for Brazil's Lula recovers to near record

2009/05/31 10:47:26

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's approval rating bounced back i...

Armed Militants Abduct 400 From Pakistani School

2009/06/01 01:15:33

Suspected militants have abducted some 400 students, staff members and relatives driving away from a...

Tiananmen mothers won't let memory of their dead fade

2009/06/01 00:59:26

BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty years after her teenage son was shot by troops near Tiananmen Square in B...

Africa's upwardly mobile money

2009/05/31 19:12:00

NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - To 28-year-old Kenyan Mary Wanjiku, her cell phone is not just a ce...

Longtime Ukrainian political rivals close to deal: report

2009/05/31 12:21:40

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former premier Viktor Yanukovich, lon...

Rebel Georgian region holds election, tension builds

2009/05/31 11:23:28

TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia voted on Sunday in its first...

Fatal shooting shows stress risk facing U.S. troops

2009/05/31 11:14:43

COMBAT OUTPOST COBRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Experts say the risk of soldiers suffering Post Traumatic Str...

Six killed when Abbas forces hit Hamas in W.Bank

2009/05/31 10:58:21

QALQILYA, West Bank (Reuters) - Six people were killed on Sunday when forces loyal to Palestinian Pr...