Kerry, Israel's Netanyahu to meet in Rome for Middle East talks

2014/12/10 22:50:16

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Rome on Sunday for talks wi...

Former top planning official jailed for life in China over graft

2014/12/10 03:38:54

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment the former deputy he...

India clamps down on unregistered taxis after Uber rape claim

2014/12/10 03:07:32

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India ordered state governments to halt the operations of all unregistered, we...

Ukraine accuses rebels of violating 'Day of Silence'; Russian gas flows resume

2014/12/10 01:29:54

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military accused separatists of violating an agreed "Day of Silence" in t...

French reform bill a major test for a weakened Hollande

2014/12/10 01:03:54

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Socialist government will propose on Wednesday a reform bill which is cru...

Brazil Congress passes budget bill, opens way for new minister

2014/12/10 00:12:33

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Congress approved late on Tuesday a controversial budget target bill w...

Man charged with trying to take U.S. military documents to China

2014/12/10 00:02:03

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Connecticut resident and Chinese citizen who alle gedly worked on th...

Tension mounts in Haiti as clock ticks on electoral impasse

2014/12/09 22:45:26

MIAMI/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The Obama administration and the United Nations are pressuring Hait...

Japan's looming benefit cuts an unspoken, unsettling election theme

2014/12/10 03:53:21

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hiroko Shinohara frets about one issue Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has noticeably av...

Venezuela president blasts 'insolent' sanctions vote by U.S. Senate

2014/12/10 03:12:21

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday night railed against the U.S. Se...

Tension mounts in Haiti as clock ticks on electoral impasse

2014/12/10 01:37:27

MIAMI/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The Obama administration and the United Nations are pressuring Hait...

Governments turn up the heat on atheists: report

2014/12/10 01:06:49

GENEVA (Reuters) - Amid a global decline in religious belief, some governments are stepping up effor...

Iraq presses Hagel for more U.S. air strikes, weapons

2014/12/10 00:43:08

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pressed outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Ch...

Last French hostage freed by Al Qaeda's north African arm

2014/12/10 00:10:38

PARIS/NIAMEY (Reuters) - Serge Lazarevic, a Frenchman who was kidnapped in northern Mali and was Fra...

Kerry urges flexibility in U.S. war powers against Islamic State

2014/12/09 23:56:02

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Any congressional authorization of U.S. military force against Islamic State ...