HARARE (Reuters) – The death of a top Zimbabwean army general in a bizarre fire has changed the dynamics in internal ZANU-PF battles over President Robert Mugabe’s succession, but analysts say the issue remains unsettled and could lead to some bruising battles ahead.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel was expecting a diplomatic tsunami to strike in September, but the problems have come sooner than expected, leaving it ever more isolated in the Middle East.
ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels fought fierce battles in two coastal cities on either side of the capital Tripoli yesterday in a drive to topple Muammar Gaddafi, but met stiff resistance from forces loyal to the long-time leader.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress yesterday charged controversial youth leader Julius Malema with “sowing divisions” in its ranks and bringing the party into disrepute.
GAZA, (Reuters) – The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip announced last night they were no longer committed to a more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a war in early 2009.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Executives at Rupert Murdoch’s UK-based News International are concerned that emails discussing questionable payments made to police by the News of the World may prove more problematic than those that discuss phone hacking, sources familiar with investigations into the shuttered tabloid’s reporting practices said.
KHYBER, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers offering Friday prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 70, a top government official said.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Wall Street ended a fourth week of losses on a down note yesterday as most buyers left the market before the weekend on growing fears of another U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Lawyers for the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – The United States and European Union called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down yesterday and U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Rising fears of another recession hammered U.S.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Black researchers are significantly less likely to win grant funding from the National Institutes of Health than white applicants, according to a study published yesterday, and the director of the U.S.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Gunmen killed seven people in southern Israel yesterday in attacks along the Egyptian border and Israel responded with an air strike in the Gaza Strip that killed six Palestinians, including the leaders of a group it blamed for the violence.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Osmar Herrera is the kind of Venezuelan that President Hugo Chavez had in mind when he launched his flagship health program eight years ago: sick, impoverished and in need of a break.
ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels seized an oil refinery in the city of Zawiyah and took control of Sabratha further west on the main highway from Tripoli to Tunisia as NATO aircraft struck targets in the capital.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian anti-graft campaigner whose jailing sparked mass protests and fierce criticism of the government has accepted a police offer to fast in a New Delhi park for two weeks, an aide said last night, prompting euphoria from his followers.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will nationalize its gold industry and is moving its international reserves out of Western countries, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday in a combative step ahead of his re-election bid next year.
ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels to the west and east of Libya’s increasingly isolated capital fought forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi yesterday for control of oil facilities vital to winning the six-month-old civil war.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Many senior executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World knew about phone hacking at the British tabloid, according to a 2007 letter written by a reporter which contradicts James Murdoch’s denials and drags Britain’s prime minister back into the scandal.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Police ordered the release of India’s leading anti-corruption campaigner from jail yesterday after mounting nationwide protests against his arrest for planning a hunger strike forced a U-turn by beleaguered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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