U.S. Reporter Jailed in Iran on Fifth Day of Hunger Strike

2009/04/25 08:36:22

The father of an American journalist who has been convicted of spying in Iran says she has gone on a...

ANC to miss two-thirds vote

2009/04/25 05:47:54

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC will fall just short of the two-thirds of votes neede...

Iceland votes to the left

2009/04/25 04:56:17

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelanders voted on Saturday in an election likely to give a historic win to t...

N. Korea Says It Has Restarted Nuclear Facilities

2009/04/25 04:13:05

North Korea has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutonium, an official sai...

North Korea says has started extracting plutonium

2009/04/25 03:47:23

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear a...

U.N. council to Sri Lanka: Let U.N. into conflict zone

2009/04/24 19:13:32

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Security Council urged Sri Lanka on Friday to cooperate with a U.N. h...

U.S. weighs Zimbabwe reform pace, no aid yet

2009/04/24 12:20:17

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's finance minister met senior U.S. diplomats on Friday, but the Stat...

Live Shark Mysteriously Left on Newspaper's Doorstep

2009/04/24 11:46:09

Reporters at an Australian paper may have received the scariest threat of the day when a live shark ...

Karzai looks strong in Afghan nominations

2009/04/25 05:52:41

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's election commission began accepting nominations on Saturday for an A...

UN dispatches top humanitarian to Sri Lanka

2009/04/25 05:03:04

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The United Nations dispatched its top humanitarian official to Sri Lanka on Satu...

Madagascar drought threatens 250,000 children

2009/04/25 04:36:29

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Up to 250,000 children are at risk of malnutrition and disease in southern Ma...

Clinton makes surprise visit to Iraq

2009/04/25 04:01:56

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sat...

Flux in Pakistani valley after Taliban retreat

2009/04/25 02:05:27

BUNER, Pakistan (Reuters) - Security in a Pakistani valley was in flux on Saturday, after Taliban fi...

Experts: North Korea a Fully Fledged Nuclear Power

2009/04/24 12:34:07

The world’s intelligence agencies and defense experts are quietly acknowledging that North Korea ha...

Burma Arrests Opposition Group Members for Praying

2009/04/24 12:07:46

Two members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party were arrested and ch...