Pro-Thaksin party looks set to run Thailand

2007/12/26 05:12:38

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Slowly but it seems surely, the party backing ousted prime minister Thaksin Shin...

Israel's Barak makes fence-mending visit to Egypt

2007/12/26 05:07:27

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak made a fence-mending visit to...

Pakistan's Bhutto vows to fight for workers

2007/12/26 05:01:18

WAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto vowed to fight for workers' rig...

Turkish woman dies from Istanbul bomb wounds

2007/12/26 04:35:55

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish woman who was injured along with seven other people in a bomb blast i...

Indonesia marks three years after tsunami with prayers

2007/12/26 03:54:19

CALANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Hundreds of Indonesians prayed at mass graves in Aceh province on Wedn...

Fire Above Restaurant in Dutch Village Kills 4 Sisters

2007/12/25 12:59:03

A fire in an apartment above a Chinese restaurant in a southern Dutch village killed four sisters be...

15 Dead, Hundreds Missing After Nepal Bridge Collapse

2007/12/25 11:26:29

At least 15 people were killed and dozens — perhaps 100 or more — were feared missing after a foot...

Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Off Coast of Japan

2007/12/25 09:44:03

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck northern Japan Tuesday near the east coast cityh of Sendai, Honshu...

MSF aid workers kidnapped in Somalia

2007/12/26 05:11:14

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali gunmen kidnapped a Spanish and an Argentine aid worker with the ...

South Korea cabinet OKs probe of president-elect

2007/12/26 05:05:07

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's cabinet on Wednesday approved a special counsel to look into securit...

Rigging row on eve of close-fought Kenya election

2007/12/26 04:53:54

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan television channel and the opposition have accused authorities of using...

Serbs to say "No" to EU over Kosovo independence

2007/12/26 04:16:10

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Serb parliament is expected to adopt a resolution on Wednesday implicitly r...

12 churches attacked in eastern India

2007/12/26 03:39:12

BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) - Hundreds of federal police were deployed in India's eastern state of Orissa ...

Turkey: More Than 200 Rebel Targets Hit Since Mid-December

2007/12/25 12:49:03

Turkey's military has hit more than 200 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq since Dec. 16, killin...

3 Bodies, 1 Survivor Found in Panama Plane Crash

2007/12/25 10:33:23

The bodies of two American passengers and the Panamanian pilot of a plane that crashed over the week...