Belgium's former Queen Fabiola, widow of King Baudouin, dies

2014/12/05 20:27:26

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's Queen Fabiola, widow of King Baudouin and queen between 1960 and 1993...

China arrests ex-security chief for corruption, leaking secrets

2014/12/05 19:34:45

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have arrested former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang a...

Suicide bombers kill up to seven in Somali town

2014/12/05 19:21:29

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Suicide bombers attacked a restaurant in the town of Baidoa northwest of the S...

Obama promises more aid, loan guarantees to Jordan

2014/12/05 19:04:09

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States would keep tryin...

U.N. Security Council members push to put North Korea rights on agenda

2014/12/05 18:30:03

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council's members pushed on Friday for th...

New NASA spaceship successfully completes debut test run

2014/12/05 18:21:29

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla - A U.S. spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars made a near-bullse...

Dozens of Chinese held in Kenyan cyber crime investigation

2014/12/05 17:23:18

NAIROBI (Reuters) - More than 70 Chinese nationals have been detained by Kenyan police investigating...

Hundreds of thousand s evacuated from path of Philippine typhoon

2014/12/05 16:48:15

MANILA (Reuters) - Around half a million people fled coastal villages and landslide-prone areas in t...

Up to 50,000 displaced Iraqi families left without aid despite access: MSF

2014/12/05 19:37:49

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Up to 50,000 displaced Iraqi families in the Kirkuk area are b...

Maldives declares state of crisis as it faces water shortage

2014/12/05 19:32:24

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Maldives, famous for its pristine beaches and scuba diving, has declared a s...

Germany pledges support to Afghanistan after combat troops leave

2014/12/05 19:13:30

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged on Friday to support Afghan President ...

Ukraine's Poroshenko tells army not to give up Donetsk airport

2014/12/05 18:43:45

KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - The whole of Ukraine will be within reach of the "enemy" if its ar...

France to pay $60 million for Holocaust victims deported by state rail firm

2014/12/05 18:25:53

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the ...

ICC prosecutor withdraws charges against Kenyan president

2014/12/05 17:42:58

AMSTERDAM/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Prosecutors dropped charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyan ...

Angry families of MH17 crash victims seek U.N. investigation

2014/12/05 17:09:36

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Relatives of MH17 crash victims, angered by what they see as Dutch mishandling...