SEOUL (Reuters) – Isolated North Korea has rockets that can hit the US mainland, it said today, two days after South Korea struck a deal with the United States to extend the range of its ballistic missiles.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s strong performance in last week’s debate helped him pull ahead of President Barack Obama, a Pew Research Center poll showed yesterday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Two scientists who upended fundamental beliefs about biology by demonstrating that every cell in the body has the potential to grow into every other type of cell have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
LEXINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered a sweeping critique of President Barack Obama’s handling of threats in the Middle East in a foreign policy address in which he tried to present himself as a credible mainstream alternative.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez won re-election yesterday, quashing the opposition’s best chance at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China’s top telecommunications gear makers should be kept from the U.S.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli air force shot down a drone after it crossed into southern Israel yesterday, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – One-eyed radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri made his first appearance in federal court in New York yesterday after Britain extradited him to the United States to face trial and a potential life sentence on terrorism charges.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama’s campaign and its Democratic allies raised $181 million in September for his re-election effort, the largest total that either side has announced yet in the 2012 campaign.
BAYAMO, Cuba (Reuters) – Cuban authorities released prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez late on Friday after detaining her on the eve of a Spanish activist’s high-profile manslaughter trial in the eastern city of Bayamo.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen people were injured yesterday when a bus travelling from Toronto to Brooklyn, New York, overturned while approaching an exit ramp on a New Jersey highway, according to New Jersey state police.
(Reuters) – Human rights group Amnesty International urged pop stars Rihanna and Shakira on Friday to open their eyes to recent arrests of journalists, bloggers and activists in Azerbaijan, before their performances in the former Soviet republic this month.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. companies should avoid doing business with China’s Huawei, the world’s No.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said it would seek to extradite Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States as soon as possible after the one-eyed radical preacher failed in a last-ditch legal attempt to avoid deportation yesterday.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Amplats fired 12,000 wildcat strikers yesterday, a high-stakes attempt by the world’s biggest platinum producer to push back at a wave of illegal stoppages sweeping through the country’s mining sector and beyond.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 7.8 percent in September and reached its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office, providing a boost to his re-election bid.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff wants to regulate strikes by public workers after a series of walkouts by civil servants in recent months paralyzed public services across Brazil.
BAYAMO, Cuba, (Reuters) – Cuba arrested a dissident blogger and other activists one day before the start of a Spanish activist’s high-profile manslaughter trial, a rights advocate said today, in a move the U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A young model was insane when he killed and castrated a prominent Portuguese journalist in a New York hotel room, believing he could “harness the power” of the man’s severed testicles, a defense lawyer said at the start of the murder trial yesterday.
DENVER, (Reuters) – A day after a muted performance in a presidential debate, U.S.
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