Russia's Putin praises Crimea's 'return home' in New Year address

2014/12/31 15:58:24

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised New Year's address on Wednes...

Retired Afghan leader meets, advises successor 'almost daily'

2014/12/31 15:55:16

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's retired president, Hamid Karzai, meets his successor almost every da...

Libya con taining Es Sider oil fire but export resumption in question

2014/12/31 15:27:39

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya has made progress containing a fire at its largest oil port that h...

Cuban open mic protest thwarted after dissidents detained

2014/12/31 01:43:59

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police detained several dissidents on Tuesday and thwarted an unauthorized ...

Divers set to search for AirAsia wreckage after debris, bodies found

2014/12/31 01:15:52

SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Divers and ships will search for the wreckage and the all im...

Journalists' killings rise to 118 in 2014, press group says

2014/12/31 00:02:20

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The number of journalists who died in targeted killings, bomb attacks or shooti...

Opinion poll lead for Greece's anti-bailout party narrows

2014/12/30 22:58:01

ATHENS (Reuters) - The lead that Greece's anti-bailout party Syriza has over the ruling conservative...

Bodies, debris from missing AirAsia plane pulled from sea off Indonesia

2014/12/30 22:21:13

SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian rescuers searching for an AirAsia plane carrying ...

Bosnian indicted over recruiting militants for Syria and Iraq

2014/12/31 15:57:08

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian court indicted a Muslim priest on Wednesday for recruiting people to ...

U.S.-led forces launch 10 air strikes in Syria, Iraq

2014/12/31 15:33:03

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition launched seven air strikes in Syria and three in Iraq ...

Mexico questions 37 over shootout in troubled western state

2014/12/31 02:15:57

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A chief suspect in a gunfight in western Mexico that killed 11 people turned...

Palestinian draft resolution fails in U.N. council, U.S. votes against

2014/12/31 01:17:00

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution ca...

Palestinian draft resolution fails in U.N. council, U.S. votes against

2014/12/31 00:10:26

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution ca...

Gambia president says flying home after gunfire rocks Banjul

2014/12/30 23:37:59

BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said he was returning home from Chad late on Tues...

Italy warns ferry fire death toll could rise, two killed in salvage

2014/12/30 22:22:46

TIRANA/ROME (Reuters) - Two Albanian seamen were killed on Tuesday during the salvage operation of a...