Two jailed Al Jazeera journalists seek presidential deportation from Egypt

2015/01/02 18:50:39

SYDNEY/CAIRO (Reuters) - Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be depo...

Gunmen kill three Sunni clerics near Iraq's Basra

2015/01/02 18:36:24

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an urgent investigation on Frid...

At least seven killed in al Shabaab attack at Somali military base

2015/01/02 18:01:59

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalian al Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the outskirts of the...

Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck

2015/01/02 17:43:59

PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo o...

Vatican prosecutor seeks trial of protester who scaled St. Peter's

2015/01/02 17:22:52

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican may try a man who scaled St. Peter's Basilica to protest agains...

Islamic State targeted in 23 air strikes by U.S., allies

2015/01/02 17:06:18

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and allies staged 23 air strikes on Islamic State targets i...

Israeli settlers stone U.S. diplomatic cars: police

2015/01/02 16:52:53

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which...

Ukraine reports first military death of 2015

2015/01/02 16:34:55

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Friday reported its first military death of 2015 in its conflict with pr...

Palestinians deliver to U.N. documents to join war crimes court

2015/01/02 18:45:34

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a move certain to anger Israel and Washington, the Palestinians on Fri...

Herders with machine guns intensify South Sudan land, food woes

2015/01/02 18:05:02

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tensions are rising in South Sudan as displaced pastoralists mig...

Venezuelan president's popularity hits new low: pollster

2015/01/02 18:01:01

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's approval rating has slipped to 22 percent,...

Desperate parents of abducted Nigerian girls say have turned to U.N.

2015/01/02 17:24:03

ABUJA (Reuters) - Parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist rebels in April said the...

Failure to stop Petrobras scandal could haunt Brazil's Rousseff

2015/01/02 17:18:11

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - When federal investigators first identified signs of corruption ...

Saudi king needed help breathing due to lung infection, condition stable

2015/01/02 16:59:29

CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz temporarily needed help to breath throu...

Bahrain denounces interference after Washington criticizes arrest

2015/01/02 16:41:26

DOHA (Reuters) - Bahraini authorities denounced what they called foreign double standards and interf...