Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 17:29 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin faces a barrage of questions about rising inflation and job losses on Thursday in his first annual question-and-answer session with the Russian people since leaving the Kremlin.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 15:36 LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will hold separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in London this month on the political and economic situation in the Middle East, he said on Wednesday.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 15:24 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Pakistan to cooperate fully in the probe into the Mumbai attacks but she also warned India against any action that could stoke regional conflict.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 13:44 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters lifted their crippling, eight-day blockade of Thailand's main airport on Wednesday, raising the hopes of 230,000 stranded tourists even though there is no end in sight to the wider political crisis.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:39 HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe riot police broke up protests by doctors, nurses and union members on Wednesday and the death toll from a cholera epidemic blamed on the country's spiraling crisis jumped to 565.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:22 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO needs more troops in Afghanistan to be able to hold territory and avoid a stalemate in its battle against Islamist militants, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Wednesday.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:07 SEOUL/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A top U.S. negotiator, arriving in Singapore on Thursday for talks with North Korea on the reclusive state's nuclear program, said it was important to nail down ways of verifying Pyongyang's claims.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:10 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan killed up to 30 Islamist militants in an air strike and three soldiers and a civilian were killed in a suicide attack in the northwest near the Afghan border Wednesday, officials said.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 10:57 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A string of departures by the U.S. military's allies in Iraq is turning into an exodus as violence subsides and the end of a U.N. mandate permitting their deployment to the country approaches.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 10:30 GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed a Yemeni cargo ship they seized last week after successful talks between regional authorities, clan elders and the gunmen, a local official said Wednesday.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 09:06 MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan judge on Wednesday suspended the high-profile trial of U.S. and Italian agents suspected of a CIA kidnapping after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi authorized witnesses to invoke state secrecy.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 08:01 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq captured two suspected members of an Iranian-backed network and killed a third Wednesday, part of U.S. efforts to target a group it says has attacked Iraqi citizens and foreign troops.
Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 06:55 ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is flying in doses of antidote for hospitals after the number of infants killed by teething syrup tainted with a poisonous chemical rose to 34, health officials said Wednesday.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 21:07 ANSEONG, South Korea (Reuters) - North Korean teenager Han Jee-hee's journey to school in South Korea began by slipping past border guards into China where she went into hiding to avoid forcible repatriation home.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 18:02 DAKAR (Reuters) - Mauritanian security forces routinely torture detainees, using electric shocks, burns and sexual violence, and this has increased since a military coup in August, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 15:28 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators probing the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri said on Tuesday they had found new information that expanded their list of suspects.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 15:24 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's minority Conservative government may seek the temporary suspension of Parliament to stop opposition parties from voting it out and taking power, an aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 14:19 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was flying to New Delhi on Tuesday to try to ease tension between India and Pakistan that has surged over the Mumbai attacks and put at risk U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 14:18 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO agreed on Tuesday to gradually resume contacts with Russia suspended after Moscow's intervention in Georgia, and put off a decision on putting Ukraine and Georgia on formal membership tracks.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 12:09 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded on Tuesday, spurring jubilant anti-government protesters to end their blockades of Bangkok's airports.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 11:57 HARARE (Reuters) - The death toll from Zimbabwe's worst recorded cholera epidemic has risen to nearly 500, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, in a sign of the rapidly deepening crisis.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 11:52 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death Tuesday for the killing of thousands of Shi'ites in a ruthless crackdown on their uprising after the 1991 Gulf War.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 11:29 KAMENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Forensic experts said on Tuesday they have unearthed about 1,000 skeletal remains of Bosnian victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 10:51 TOKYO (Reuters) - The top U.S. negotiator for multilateral talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear program said on Tuesday he saw a way forward at the next meeting, but details on verification must still be clarified.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 09:26 VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.N. resolution calling on governments worldwide to de-criminalize homosexuality.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 09:15 HELSINKI (Reuters) - Europe's main security and human rights body will this week discuss problems lingering since the war it failed to prevent between Russia and Georgia and consider calls by Moscow for a new European security pact.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 09:03 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian governor-general Michaelle Jean -- the acting head of state -- said on Tuesday she would cut short a foreign trip and return to Canada to help resolve a major political crisis.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 08:37 LANDI KOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants set off a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as trucks supplying Western forces in Afghanistan were passing by, wounding three people, a government official and witnesses said.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 05:33 KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Darfur rebel leader on Tuesday said he was resisting international pressure to attend peace talks in Qatar and vowed to boycott all negotiations until government militias were disarmed and attacks ended.
Reuters International - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 05:31 BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy to call off a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying on Tuesday that it was up to Sarkozy to create the right conditions for putting China-EU relations back on track.
