UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The UN Security Council yesterday unanimously condemned North Korea’s December rocket launch and expanded existing UN sanctions, eliciting a vow from Pyongyang to boost the North’s military and nuclear capabilities.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – General John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was cleared by Pentagon investigators of allegations of professional misconduct over email exchanges with a Florida socialite, U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A veteran British TV presenter was charged with rape and 14 counts of indecent assault on underage girls, police said on Tuesday, deepening concerns about sex abuse by top BBC personalities decades ago.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – An undersea fiber-optic cable that promises to bring Cuban Internet and phone communications into the 21st Century stirred to life this week, two years after it was laid between Venezuela and the Caribbean island.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Three people were wounded, one critically, today when gunfire erupted during an altercation between two people on a community college campus near Houston, police said, the latest in a series of shootings on U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council today unanimously condemned North Korea’s December rocket launch and expanded existing U.N.
PARIS, (Reuters) – A cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs leaked from a chemicals factory in northwest France and drifted across the English Channel as far as London today.
NIAMEY/BAMAKO, (Reuters) – Chadian forces advanced towards the Mali border today as an African troop deployment and a U.S.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is undergoing physical therapy to hasten his return home after he underwent cancer surgery in Cuba last month, Bolivian President Evo Morales said today.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Three blasts, including a suicide bomber attack near an army base, killed least 17 people across Baghdad today, the latest violence as Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki faces increasing pressure from a political crisis.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A confident President Barack Obama kicked off his second term yesterday with an impassioned call for a more inclusive America that rejects partisan rancor and embraces immigration reform, gay rights and the fight against climate change.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was one of the biggest questions of yesterday’s inaugural ceremonies: not what would President Barack Obama say, but what would his wife, Michelle Obama, wear.
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s prime minister accused a Canadian of coordinating last week’s raid on a desert gas plant and, praising the storming of the complex where 38 mostly foreign hostages were killed, he pledged to resist the rise of Islamists in the Sahara.
JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) – China could be considering relaxing its harsh one-child policy because of women like Hu Yanqin, who lives in a village at the edge of the Gobi desert.
DIABALY, Mali (Reuters) – French and Malian armoured columns rolled into the towns of Diabaly and Douentza in central Mali yesterday afer the al Qaeda-linked rebels who had seized them fled into the bush to avoid air strikes.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi are deeply disturbed by the continued bloodshed in Syria, where more than 60,000 people have been killed in 22 months of civil war, the United Nations said yesterday.
ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Algeria said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of at least 38 workers, all but one foreign, at the Sahara gas plant its forces stormed two days ago and said the Islamist gunmen had been led by a man with Canadian citizenship.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Americans today to reject political “absolutism” and partisan rancor, as he kicked off his second term with an impassioned call for collective action and established a more assertive tone for the challenges he faces over the next four years.
KABUL, (Reuters) – Suicide bombers and gunmen launched an eight-hour assault on the headquarters of the Kabul traffic police today, Afghan officials said, in the second coordinated attack on a government building in less than a week.
(Reuters) – Justin Trudeau, son of charismatic former Canadian leader Pierre Trudeau, said yesterday the race to find a new head of the minority Liberal party was about ushering in someone with “vibrant ideas” who could help the struggling middle class.
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