U.S. loses drone over Syria, which claims to have brought it down

2015/03/17 23:42:14

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone over Syr...

U.S. warns lack of accountability hampers South Sudan peace bid

2015/03/17 23:26:06

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A lack of accountability in South Sudan for "atrocities, sexual and gende...

Press freedom at stake in Lebanon tribunal case, says accused

2015/03/17 22:47:31

LONDON (Reuters) - The planned trial of a Lebanese journalist and her TV station over a report that ...

Altercation, death threats at Indian school before nun was raped

2015/03/17 22:06:12

KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - In the days before the rape of an elderly nun in an armed assau...

Northern Irish MP asks for apology over Biden St. Patrick's Day joke

2015/03/17 21:24:19

BELFAST (Reuters) - A British member of parliament on Tuesday called on U.S. Vice President Joe Bide...

Sudan: don't tie Darfur peacekeepers exit to tribal violence end

2015/03/17 21:13:09

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A withdrawal of peacekeepers from Sudan's Darfur region should not be con...

'King Bibi's' reign challenged in Israeli election

2015/03/16 23:06:15

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's march towards becoming the longest-serving...

Cuba, U.S. renew talks while differing over Venezuela

2015/03/16 22:27:56

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States renewed talks on restoring diplomatic relations on Mon...

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Indonesia, no tsunami threat

2015/03/17 23:30:05

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the northwest of Ternate in Indonesia on We...

Lawyer for Pakistan doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden shot dead

2015/03/17 22:59:56

PESHAWAR (Reuters) - A Pakistani lawyer under death threats for defending a doctor who helped CIA ag...

Ukraine says wants to be 'flexible' with its bondholders

2015/03/17 22:36:51

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukraine's finance minister on Tuesday said the country wants to be "flexi ble...

Nigeria says has pushed Boko Haram out of all but three areas

2015/03/17 21:46:11

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian army said on Tuesday it had repelled Boko Haram from all but three lo...

Two Dutch airmen dead in Mali helicopter crash: officials

2015/03/17 21:21:03

AMSTERDAM/DAKAR (Reuters) - Two Dutch airmen died after an Apache attack helicopter serving with the...

Tunisia to reopen airspace for Libyan flights to Tripoli

2015/03/17 20:48:49

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will reopen part of its airspace to flights from western Libya for the fir...

Did Greek minister Varoufakis show Germany the 'Stinkefinger'?

2015/03/16 22:49:35

BERLIN (Reuters) - Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis tangled yet again with Berlin on Monday a...