Libya seeks foreign help for oilfields as rockets fired at airport

2014/08/25 17:05:29

CAIRO/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libya wants the international community to help protect its oilfields, ai...

No let-up in Gaza war, Israel moves to protect its economy

2014/08/25 16:52:51

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed at least eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip ...

Final TV debate looms before Scotland's independence vote

2014/08/25 16:28:55

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's future will be debated in a final TV showdown on Monday, just weeks...

Boko Haram leader says ruling Nigerian town by Islamic law

2014/08/25 15:48:56

ABUJA (Reuters) - The leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now rulin...

Hundreds dead as Islamic State seizes Syrian air base: monitor

2014/08/25 13:25:15

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants stormed an air base in northeast Syria on Sunday, capturi...

Afghan presidential inauguration delayed with candidates deep in conflict

2014/08/25 12:19:56

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's next president was due to take over on Monday but an inauguration de...

Iran deputy foreign minister en route to Saudi Arabia: IRNA agency

2014/08/25 10:46:45

DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian left for Riyadh on...

Swedish opposition lead narrows slightly ahead of Sept election -poll

2014/08/25 10:34:16

STOCKHOLM August 25(Reuters) - Sweden's center-left opposition parties - the Social Democrats, Green...

U.N. accuses Islamic State of mass killings

2014/08/25 16:59:45

GENEVA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by ...

Ukraine accuses Russia of opening new front before leaders' meeting

2014/08/25 16:38:30

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of sending soldiers across the border to open a ne...

Syria says would work with any state to fight Islamist militants

2014/08/25 15:51:35

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Monday it would cooperate in any international effort to fight Isla...

Vietnam envoy to visit China to seek thaw in testy ties

2014/08/25 13:58:15

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will send a special envoy to China this week to try to rebuild battered di...

Iran nuclear probe reaches deadline, no word yet on outcome

2014/08/25 13:07:23

VIENNA (Reuters) - A deadline for Iran to answer U.N. nuclear watchdog questions about suspected ato...

Russia says wants to send second aid convoy to east Ukraine

2014/08/25 10:52:26

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia wants to send a second humanitarian aid convoy to eastern Ukraine in the n...

China satellite survey spots huge marijuana field, porous borders

2014/08/25 10:37:11

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese satellite has spotted the country's biggest ever marijuana plantation ...