India gripes over border, trade woes on Li's first foreign trip20/05 06:51 CET, By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday a…
Imran Khan's party wins revote in Karachi, protests expected20/05 06:32 CET, ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Cricket hero Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a revote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi on…
Venezuela says taking steps to restore U.S. diplomatic ties20/05 05:00 CET, CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s recent designation of an acting head of its diplomatic mission in the United States shows the OPEC nation’s…
Obama walks a fine line with Myanmar president's landmark visit20/05 01:09 CET, By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China’s backyard and…
- Militants kill 10 Iraq policemen in checkpoint attacks
20/05 00:29 CET, RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) – - Militants killed at least 10 Iraqi policemen in a series of attacks on checkpoints in the West of the country on…
Analysis - Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI19/05 23:25 CET, By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained…
- Analysis - Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI
19/05 23:25 CET, By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained…
- Analysis - Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI
19/05 23:25 CET, By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained…
- Analysis - Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI
19/05 23:25 CET, By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained…
Pakistan army will be watching Sharif's cosying up to India19/05 23:18 CET, By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s all-powerful military overthrew Nawaz Sharif 14 years ago and hustled him off into…
Indonesia's nationwide healthcare plan stumbles at first hurdle19/05 23:12 CET, By Randy Fabi and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) – When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away…
Exclusive - Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart still makes Wrangler shirts19/05 23:06 CET, By Serajul Quadir and Rafiqur Rahman GAZIPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex …
Insight - Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes19/05 23:01 CET, By James Pomfret and Matthew Miller ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) – In an underground mall just a stone’s throw from China’s teeming…
- One killed in northern Lebanese city of Tripoli
19/05 22:45 CET, TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – One person was killed and a dozen people were wounded by gunfire on Sunday in the northern Lebanese city of…
- Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing
19/05 21:14 CET, CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked…
- Two Egyptian journalists, critical of Mursi, face trial
19/05 20:22 CET, CAIRO (Reuters) – Two Egyptian journalists at a newspaper critical of President Mohamed Mursi were ordered on Sunday to face an expedited…
Tunisian Islamist protester killed in clash with police19/05 20:13 CET, By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration…
- Dubai labourers stage rare strike for more pay
19/05 19:58 CET, By Praveen Menon DUBAI (Reuters) – Thousands of workers employed by Dubai’s largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on…
AP chief says phone probe makes news sources reluctant to talk19/05 19:53 CET, WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the…
Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech19/05 19:35 CET, By Steve Holland ATLANTA (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech…
Humala's approval rating in Peru slips to six-month low19/05 18:52 CET, LIMA (Reuters) – President Ollanta Humala’s approval rating fell 5 points to a six-month low of 46 percent, reflecting the unpopularity of…
Netanyahu takes aim at weapons 'leakage' in Syria19/05 18:01 CET, By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes…
With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era19/05 17:14 CET, By Lamine Chikhi and Myra MacDonald ALGIERS (Reuters) – Three weeks after being rushed to hospital in Paris, Algerian President Abdelaziz…
- South Africa finds collusion, manipulation in Gupta scandal
19/05 16:53 CET, By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some…
Canadian prime minister's top aide quits over expenses scandal19/05 16:50 CET, By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned on Sunday over his role in…
Bangladesh court orders action against factory owner in November fire19/05 16:13 CET, DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladesh court on Sunday banned the owner of a garment factory that was destroyed in a fire in November from leaving…
Analysis - Airline emissions deal may not come before EU deadline19/05 16:09 CET, By Allison Martell (Reuters) – Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry’s greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a…
Syrian army, Hezbollah attack rebels in border town - opposition19/05 15:40 CET, By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian troops supported by Hezbollah militants launched an offensive to retake a major town near…
Pope warns Church against closing in on itself19/05 15:36 CET, By Catherine Hornby VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost…
Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle19/05 15:23 CET, BERLIN (Reuters) – Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel’s…
EU says worried by Russia's human rights record19/05 15:12 CET, BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union criticised Russia’s human rights record on Sunday, saying it was increasingly concerned at a wave…
Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida19/05 14:51 CET, By Karen Brooks and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was…
After crushing Mali Islamists, France pushes deal with Tuaregs19/05 14:41 CET, By David Lewis BAMAKO (Reuters) – After winning adulation across Mali for a five-month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters…
Afghanistan's Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid tensions with Pakistan19/05 14:31 CET, By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip…
France in talks with U.S., Israel to buy drones - minister19/05 12:38 CET, PARIS (Reuters) – France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones to build up a modern fleet…
North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row19/05 12:21 CET, By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a day after launching three of…
U.N. chief Ban says worried over North Korea missile launch19/05 12:00 CET, MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea’s launch of short-range missiles, urging…
Syria's Assad: Little chance peace talks would succeed - newspaper19/05 11:57 CET, LIMA (Reuters) – Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb “terrorism” in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would…
Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing19/05 10:07 CET, By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – An upmarket constituency of Pakistan’s violence-plagued city of Karachi…
- Iran hangs two spies working for Israel and U.S. - report
19/05 09:59 CET, DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran’s Fars news…
India's weakened Congress wondering if early elections will help19/05 06:43 CET, By Satarupa Bhattacharjya and Ross Colvin NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Congress party is debating holding a general election in November…
Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older19/05 06:19 CET, By Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China (Reuters) – Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old…
- Two men charged with killing Malcolm X grandson
19/05 03:01 CET, MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Two men arrested in the fatal beating of the grandson of U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X were sent to prison…
Regional force boosts troop numbers in Central African Republic19/05 00:09 CET, LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – African military chiefs agreed on Saturday to more than double the size of a regional peacekeeping force deployed in…
Church must help the poorest, not dissect theology, pope says18/05 23:55 CET, By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he…
France detains suspect in Toulouse killings investigation18/05 21:55 CET, PARIS (Reuters) – French anti-terror judges ordered the detention on Saturday of a man on suspicions he aided an al Qaeda-inspired gunman…
- Israel warns against Russian arms supply to Syria
18/05 20:47 CET, By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Saturday that advanced weapons supplied by Russia to war-torn Syria could end up in…
- At least four suspected militants killed in Yemen drone strike
18/05 20:34 CET, ADEN (Reuters) – At least four people were killed and a number of others wounded in a drone strike on a vehicle carrying suspected al Qaeda…
Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash18/05 20:07 CET, By Karen Brooks (Reuters) – Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that…
- Ivory Coast arrests militia chief accused over massacre
18/05 20:01 CET, By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Authorities in Ivory Coast on Saturday arrested a militia leader accused of participating in one of the…
- US Airways plane makes unusual belly landing at Newark airport
18/05 19:15 CET, By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) – A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International…
Germany's Merkel visits Pope, urges tougher market controls18/05 18:54 CET, By James Mackenzie VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his…
Rome protest turns up heat on new Prime Minister18/05 18:16 CET, ROME (Reuters) – Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime…
- Egypt's opposition attacks Brotherhood-backed NGO draft law
18/05 17:14 CET, CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s main opposition bloc said on Saturday that a Muslim Brotherhood-backed bill to regulate human rights groups and…
Supporters and opponents of Ukraine president clash in Kiev18/05 16:25 CET, KIEV (Reuters) – Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich scuffled as both sides held large rallies in the capital…
- Armed Tuareg and Arab groups clash in northern Mali
18/05 15:36 CET, By David Lewis BAMAKO (Reuters) – Fighting has broken out in northern Mali between Tuareg separatists and local Arab-led gunmen, only days…
Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women's law18/05 13:52 CET, By Miriam Arghandiwal and Ibrahimi Aziz KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence…
Polish conservative opposition leads opinion poll18/05 11:00 CET, WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party has overtaken the ruling Civic Platform in an opinion poll released on…
- Suspected Islamist gunmen assassinate Yemeni colonel
18/05 10:38 CET, ADEN (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked…
Hopes fade for those still trapped in Freeport Indonesia mine18/05 09:10 CET, JAKARTA (Reuters) – Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc said on Saturday that rockfalls were hampering rescue efforts after a tunnel…
- Northeast Japan jolted by magnitude 5.9 quake, no tsunami warning
18/05 09:02 CET, TOKYO (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was…
Venezuela frees opposition activist jailed over post-vote violence18/05 03:34 CET, CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela on Friday released an opposition activist who had been jailed on accusations of inciting violence in the wake…
- One dead, dozens wounded in sectarian clashes in Egypt
18/05 02:33 CET, ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) – One person died and dozens were wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians late Friday night outside a…
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