Kenya takes step toward recognizing intersex people in landmark ruling

2014/12/05 16:42:14

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Kenyan court has ordered the government to issue a birth ce...

U.N. rights experts seek review of U.S. police practices

2014/12/05 14:55:16

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights experts on Friday called for a halt to racial profili...

North Korea offers to send leader's sister to event in the South

2014/12/04 02:56:43

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has offered to send leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister to a South Kor...

Honduras, Guatemala establish joint anti-drug force

2014/12/04 01:20:13

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras and Guatemala said on Wednesday they will set up a joint military f...

Colombia, Marxist FARC rebels to restart peace talks this month

2014/12/04 00:17:35

HAVANA (Reuters) - The Colombian government and leftist rebels will renew peace talks this month, re...

Brazil targets Petrobras contractors as corruption probe expands

2014/12/03 23:10:41

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's comptroller general opened cases on Wednesd ay against eight engineer...

Lebanon says detained woman was Baghdadi wife for three months

2014/12/03 22:36:02

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's interior minister said on Wednesday that a women detained by security f...

Obama says poor economic situation may change Putin ways

2014/12/03 22:17:13

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he doubted Russian President Vl...

Russia's Lavrov says West wrong to blame Moscow over Ukraine

2014/12/05 15:34:12

BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized the West on Friday ...

Sudanese political and armed opposition agree to a unified front

2014/12/04 03:17:55

CAIRO (Reuters) - A spectrum of Sudanese political and armed opposition groups put aside differences...

China orders further crackdown on domestic media

2014/12/04 02:48:42

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has ordered a further crackdown on its domestic media, telling news organi...

U.S. military monitoring Islamic State training in Libya: general

2014/12/04 00:27:32

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is closely monitoring a nascent effort by Islamic State, th...

Ambitious and impatient, Afghan leader eyes aid, peace, reform

2014/12/04 00:09:55

KABUL (Reuters) - New Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has set about overhauling a dysfunctional admini...

Putin under pressure to show he can cure Russia's economic ills

2014/12/03 22:40:39

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin is under pressure to show he has a prescription to cure ...

Maritime guns for hire adapt to changes in sea piracy

2014/12/03 22:23:30

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Cash-strapped maritime security firms are being forced to use fewer costly eli...