Reuters: World
- Australia's Rudd loses support in state elections
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 11:00 PMCANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minster Kevin Rudd's ruling Labor Party suffered a large loss of support in weekend elections in Australia's two smallest states, in a result which could disrupt his plans for sweeping health reforms.
More | Talk - Sarkozy faces heavy defeat in French regional poll
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 07:38 PMPARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right party faces heavy losses in regional elections Sunday that could affect the pace of reform as maneuvering begins before the 2012 presidential campaign.
More | Talk - Colombian rebels kidnap five oil contractors
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 06:46 PMBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian FARC guerrillas kidnapped five local oil contractors near a U.S.-operated oilfield, whisking them into a mountainous area close to Venezuela with troops in pursuit, officials said on Saturday.
More | Talk - DR Congo could win debt relief deal by June: IMF
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 12:09 PMKINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo could win a deal to wipe out the bulk of its $11 billion debt in time for June celebrations marking 50 years of independence, the International Monetary Fund said on Saturday.
More | Talk - Allawi edges ahead of PM again in Iraq election
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 10:19 AMBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Secularist Iyad Allawi edged ahead of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday in a neck-and-neck election race that has laid bare the ethnic and sectarian divisions threatening Iraq's fragile stability.
More | Talk - Obama to Iran: U.S. offer of dialogue still stands
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 07:54 AMWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.
More | Talk - 1,500 rally against Putin in Russian Far East
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 03:47 AMVLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - At least 1,500 people rallied against the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Far East city of Vladivostok in the first of a string of opposition rallies planned across Russia on Saturday.
More | Talk - Gunmen block roads in Mexico's drug-plagued north
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 10:06 PMMONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S.
More | Talk - Gunmen block roads in Mexico's drug-plagued north
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 08:05 PMMONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S.
More | Talk - World's slums grow despite rapid economy growth: U.N.
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:34 PMRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Almost a quarter of a billion people moved out of slum conditions in the past decade, driven by rapid economic growth in emerging giants India and China, but the number of people living in them continues to rise, the United Nations housing agency said on Friday.
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- No evidence of mine collapse in Sierra Leone town
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 07:11 PMBAOMAHUN (Reuters) - Gold mines around the remote Sierra Leone town of Baomahun showed no evidence of a collapse on Saturday, a Reuters television crew said, corroborating an official denial that a mining disaster had occurred there.
More | Talk - Colombian journalist shot and killed
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 07:44 PMBOGOTA (Reuters) - A gunman killed a Colombian journalist who had received threats and reported on politicians linked to paramilitary death squads, police and the victim's family said on Saturday.
More | Talk - Iran president suggests referendum on subsidy cuts
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 02:19 PMTEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested holding a referendum to approve subsidy cuts that the Islamic Republic's parliament has repeatedly blocked, a news agency said Saturday.
More | Talk - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in W.Bank: medics
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 11:57 AMNABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian youth was killed by Israel troops and another was seriously wounded on Saturday during a clash in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian hospital officials said.
More | Talk - Somali al Shabaab rebel commander shot dead
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 07:57 AMMOGADISHU (Reuters) - A senior official of Somali insurgent group al Shabaab was shot dead on Friday in a rare assassination in the southern port of Kismayu, which is tightly controlled by the al Qaeda-linked rebels.
More | Talk - Pope apologizes to Irish sex abuse victims
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 07:48 AMVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday apologized to victims of child sexual abuse by clergy in Ireland and announced a formal Vatican investigation of Irish Roman Catholic dioceses and seminaries hit by the abuse scandal.
More | Talk - North Korea parliament to meet, Kim and cadres in focus
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 12:46 AMSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's rubber stamp parliament will meet in April for an annual session where the secretive and isolated state typically reveals changes to its ruling elite and spending priorities for the coming year.
More | Talk - Opposition "red shirts" try to win over Thai capital
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 11:00 PMBANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of opposition activists prepared to fan out across Thailand's capital on Saturday in a bid to win the hearts of Bangkok's middle classes and recruit them for their anti-government campaign.
More | Talk - Sanin wins Colombia conservative candidacy
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 07:50 PMBOGOTA (Reuters) - Former Colombian foreign minister Noemi Sanin has won the country's Conservative Party candidacy for the presidential race in May, according to tallies of more than 99 percent of votes on Friday.
More | Talk - Legal adviser to U.S. Haiti missionaries arrested
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:27 PMSANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of U.S.
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- Thai protest talks scheduled; resolution unlikely
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 11:48 PMBANGKOK (Reuters) - Opposition activists prepared for talks with Thailand's government on Sunday to seek a way out of an intractable political conflict, but with neither side willing to budge, a resolution seems far from likely.
More | Talk - Swiss Catholic Church investigating 10 abuse cases
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 05:24 PMZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss Catholic Church is investigating around 10 allegations of abuse by clergy, including some acts committed since 2001, making Switzerland the latest country to be hit by a wave of scandal sweeping Europe.
More | Talk - Magnitude-5.6 quake near Guantanamo, Cuba
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 04:19 PMHAVANA (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S.
More | Talk - U.N.'s Ban in West Bank pushes for peace talks
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 08:29 AMRAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.N.
More | Talk - Nepal's Maoists say Koirala's death a blow to peace
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 08:20 AMKATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who helped broker peace with the former Maoist rebels to end a civil war, died Saturday, officials said.
More | Talk - Massive sandstorm turns Beijing's streets yellow
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 03:17 AMBEIJING (Reuters) - Tons of sand from deserts in China's interior blew into Beijing Saturday, shrouding China's capital in a yellow-orange haze that authorities warned made the air quality "hazardous."
More | Talk - India to get access to U.S. man on Mumbai attack: U.S.
Saturday - 03/20/2010 - 04:08 AMNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian investigators will be given access to the Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan the Mumbai attacks, but he won't be extradited to India on current charges, a U.S.
More | Talk - Sanin wins Colombian conservative candidacy
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 09:44 PMBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's former foreign minister Noemi Sanin won the country's Conservative Party candidacy for May's presidential election in a decision that risks splitting President Alvaro Uribe's political coalition.
More | Talk - Famed for divorce, Yemeni girl set to read memoir
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 07:23 PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
More | Talk - Israel strikes in Gaza after deadly rocket
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 05:33 PMGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft struck at least seven targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said.
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