U.N. voices 'grave concern' at persistent South Sudan violence

2014/06/04 22:33:30

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday condemned the continued b...

Suspected Islamists kill dozens in northeast Nigeria

2014/06/04 22:21:52

MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants have killed dozens of civi lians in three...

Drone strike kills three suspected militants in Yemen: sources

2014/06/04 22:10:54

SANAA (Reuters) - A drone strike killed at least three suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen on Wedn...

Assad wins Syria election with 88.7 percent of votes: speaker

2014/06/04 21:16:40

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote in Syria's presidential election, pa...

Syria says t urnout in election was 73 percent

2014/06/04 20:38:52

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's constitutional court said on Wednesday turnout for the presidential elect...

Swiss say working with Egypt, Ukraine to recover stolen assets

2014/06/04 20:01:52

GENEVA (Reuters) - Switzerland is working hard to prevent ill-gotten assets of corrupt leaders from ...

NATO to keep around 12,000 troops in Afghanistan next year: U.S. official

2014/06/04 19:40:39

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A NATO-led training mission in Afghanistan next year is likely to total about...

Speed, driver's actions caused Spanish train disaster: ministry

2014/06/04 19:22:39

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's worst train disaster in decades, which killed 79 people last year, was ca...

Kuwait suspends TV programs over report related to 'plot' tape

2014/06/04 22:25:38

DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait has banned several television news channels from airing programs about an i...

Obama served up lesson in leadership at Warsaw banquet

2014/06/04 22:16:54

WARSAW (Reuters) - When Lech Walesa, the man whose Solidarity movement helped bring down the Iron Cu...

Bangladesh hopes to solve debate over unsafe garment factories soon

2014/06/04 21:24:01

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh government officials said on Wednesday they hope to solve a crisis over...

Inspectors press Syria on chemical arms 'discrepancies': envoys

2014/06/04 20:50:55

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal...

NATO extends Somali counter-piracy mission to 2016

2014/06/04 20:20:00

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO has decided to extend its Indian Ocean counter-piracy mission by two years...

Sarkozy allies urge him to return, lead divided opposition

2014/06/04 19:46:26

PARIS (Reuters) - Allies of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy lined up on Wednesday to call fo...

Defeated Colombian leftist calls on voters to back Santos

2014/06/04 19:24:58

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Leftist politician Clara Lopez, who was defeated in the first round of Colombia's...