Record numbers evacuated in Malaysia's worst floods in decades

2014/12/26 03:34:19

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authoritie...

Sudan expels two senior U.N. officials; U.N. says move 'unacceptable'

2014/12/26 02:03:18

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, the world body ...

Asia remembers devastating 2004 tsunami with prayers, memorial services

2014/12/25 23:37:58

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Survivor s of Asia's 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 vic...

Islamist gunmen attack African Union base in Somalia

2014/12/25 22:03:10

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Eight Islamist gunmen infiltrated the main African Union (AU) base in Mogadish...

Mauritania condemns man to death for 'insulting the prophet'

2014/12/25 20:47:29

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania on Thursday condemned a man to death for "insulting the prophet", ...

Pope condemns Islamic State, decries suffering of children

2014/12/25 20:13:15

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday condemned the "brutal persecution" of minorities b...

Sudan expels two senior U.N. officials: sources

2014/12/25 19:50:04

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, U.N. sources sa...

Pope, on Christmas Eve, urges world to be open to God

2014/12/24 23:38:54

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis ushered the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas...

Veteran politician Evans Paul nominated for prime minister of Haiti

2014/12/26 02:33:09

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Former Port-au-Prince mayor and veteran politician Evans Paul was nominat...

Colombia's FARC rebels to free kidnapped soldier in peace gesture

2014/12/26 01:20:49

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels will soon free a soldier captured last week during...

Rocket hits storage tank at Libya's biggest oil port

2014/12/25 23:07:13

BENGHAZI/TUNIS, Libya (Reuters) - A rocket set a storage tank at the eastern Libyan oil of port Es S...

Firebomb attack wounds Israeli father and daughter in West Bank

2014/12/25 21:51:04

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A firebomb attack on a car in the occupied West Bank left an 11-year-old Israe...

UK's Queen Elizabeth urges reconciliation in post-referendum Scotland

2014/12/25 20:38:39

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth used her annual Christmas Day broadcast on Thursday to ...

Father asks Islamic State to treat captured pilot son as 'guest'

2014/12/25 20:06:06

AMMAN (Reuters) - The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State fighters after his plane...

Thai leader cites China as positive example in year-end message

2014/12/25 06:31:42

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha cited China as a good example of economic ...