China quake-lake fears ease as angry parents grieve

2008/05/31 22:38:17

DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - Engineers have completed work to drain a lake formed by last month's e...

Egyptian Christians, Muslims clash, killing one

2008/05/31 18:29:55

CAIRO (Reuters) - One Egyptian Muslim was killed and four Christians were wounded and on Saturday in...

Zimbabwe TV says MDC supporters shoot ZANU-PF members

2008/05/31 14:24:23

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's state-owned television said on Saturday two ruling ZANU-PF party membe...

N. Korea Questions U.S. Willingness to Settle Nuke Issue

2008/05/31 12:53:22

North Korea questioned Saturday U.S. willingness to settle an ongoing nuclear dispute after criticis...

Political Foes Put the Screws on Musharraf

2008/05/31 12:49:48

For eight years, President Pervez Musharraf dominated Pakistan and charmed the West as a straight-ta...

Iraqi Shiites Protest Long-Term U.S. Security Deal

2008/05/31 12:13:22

Loyalists of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government Saturday to hold a...

Muslim Marriage Annulled Over False Virginity Claim

2008/05/31 11:19:55

The annulment of a young Muslim couple’s marriage because the bride was not a virgin has caused ang...

One soldier dead and 6 wounded in Afghan suicide blast

2008/05/31 10:09:02

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed one foreign soldier and wounded six o...

Petrol fuels political woes for Australia's Rudd

2008/05/31 21:51:39

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rising petrol prices have ended Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's politica...

Macedonians vote amid EU, NATO uncertainty

2008/05/31 17:28:08

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonians vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the Balk...

Afghan Car Bomb Attack Kills 2 NATO Soldiers

2008/05/31 12:56:42

A homicide car bomb attack against a NATO convoy Saturday killed two soldiers and wounded four other...

U.N. Nuclear Agency Report Puts Iran on Defensive

2008/05/31 12:53:10

Growing pressure on Iran to explain what could be secret nuclear weapons work has left Tehran increa...

Myanmar warned over forcing cyclone survivors home

2008/05/31 12:21:47

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar must stop forcing cyclone survivors to return to their shattered homes wh...

Bomb Explodes in Spain After Anonymous Warning Call

2008/05/31 11:49:30

Road assistance service DYA got an anonymous call at 1:30 a.m. saying a bomb would go off outside a ...

China: 200,000 Evacuated Because of Flood Risk

2008/05/31 11:16:04

Chinese authorities had evacuated nearly 200,000 people by early Saturday and warned more than 1 mil...