Iran says won't rule out using oil as a weapon

2007/06/19 07:38:24

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to mili...

Vilma Espin, first lady of Cuban revolution, dies

2007/06/19 07:30:03

HAVANA (Reuters) - Vilma Espin, sister-in-law of convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro and one of t...

Afghans must stand on their own feet, says president

2007/06/19 06:59:32

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghans should stand on their own feet to save their country from further foreign ...

Nigerian strike still on despite concessions

2007/06/19 06:10:30

LAGOS (Reuters) - A general strike in Africa's top oil producer will go ahead as planned on Wednesda...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi turns 62 in isolation

2007/06/19 05:24:01

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi spent another birth...

36 Militiamen Killed in Clash in Southern Iraq

2007/06/18 12:58:32

Residents emerged from their homes Sunday at the end of a four-day lockdown and found themselves cau...

Milan Judge Suspends Trial Challenging CIA Program

2007/06/18 11:13:37

An Italian judge on Monday suspended the first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition pro...

Hong Kong ambiguous about China dissidents 10 years on

2007/06/18 09:24:55

HONG KONG (Reuters) - For a couple of days around this time every year, thousands of Hong Kong resid...

Israel plans funding clampdown on Hamas-ruled Gaza

2007/06/19 07:36:45

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to tighten a financial clampdown on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip th...

France's Sarkozy shakes up cabinet after polls

2007/06/19 07:28:20

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday after parliamen...

West Throws Support Behind Abbas

2007/06/19 06:39:52

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new government without Hamas and outlawed the Hamas m...

Lebanese soldier dies in refugee camp fighting

2007/06/19 05:42:39

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - A Lebanese soldier was killed on Tuesday at a Palestinian refugee...

Boeing, Airbus Battle for Orders at Paris Air Show

2007/06/18 13:22:52

Airbus and Boeing, rivals at the Paris air show, both announced billions of dollars worth of orders ...

Pakistan Minister: Rushdie's Knighthood Justifies Attacks

2007/06/18 11:37:46

Pakistan on Monday condemned Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie as an affront ...

Revolutionary Vilma Espin Guillois Dies at 77

2007/06/18 09:36:25

The wife of acting Cuban President Raul Castro and one of the communist nation's most politically po...