LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, leaving the Australian with few legal options after an 18-month legal battle.
CARACAS/MIAMI, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge who fled the country last month is cooperating with an elite special operations unit of the U.S.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden turned down an opportunity to leave his country and resettle overseas with his family, two U.S.
AMMAN (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad faces renewed international pressure to end the bloodshed in Syria but, with peace envoy Kofi Annan visiting Damascus, his government blamed Islamist militants for a massacre in which UN observers had implicated his army.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo are investigating allegations that neighbouring Rwanda is recruiting and training fighters in support of a new armed movement in its troubled eastern borderlands, a government spokesman said yesterday.
DOHA (Reuters) – At least 19 foreign nationals, including 13 children, were killed in a fire that ripped through an upscale shopping mall in Qatar yesterday, the country’s interior ministry said.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister made it into the run-off for Egypt’s presidential election set ablaze his campaign headquarters yesterday, witnesses said, underscoring the divisive outcome of the country’s historic vote.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s presidential candidates yesterday faced the families of people murdered, mutilated, and kidnapped in drug violence in a meeting that was marked by strong condemnations of corrupt police and politicians.
AMMAN/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council yesterday unanimously condemned the killing of at least 108 people, including many children, in the Syrian town of Houla, a sign of mounting outrage at the massacre that the government and rebels blamed on each other.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Tony Blair’s decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favourable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry today.
CANNES, France, (Reuters) – Austrian director Michael Haneke won the Cannes film festival’s top honour, the Palme d’Or, yesterday with “Love” (Amour), his acclaimed tale of an elderly couple facing the inescapable, yet no less tragic march of death.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Thousands of devout Muslims prayed outside Turkey’s historic Hagia Sophia museum yesterday to protest a 1934 law that bars religious services at the former church and mosque.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a UN peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria’s uprising.
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood may seek to modify, but will not destroy, Egypt’s 33-year-old peace treaty with Israel, former US President Jimmy Carter said yesterday.
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s Tuareg rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine Islamist militants have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic state in the north of the country, a rebel spokesman said yesterday.