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China's second manned spacecraft returns safely
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI touched down successfully in Inner Mongolia on Monday after orbiting the Earth for five days, state media said, as ...
Soccer great Weah ahead in Liberia, run-off looms
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia's presidential elections appeared headed for a second round as the latest tally on Sunday from last week's vote showed soccer great George Weah's lead ...
Merkel faces big test in coalition talks
BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel faces her first big test since securing the right to lead Germany as she takes her conservatives into talks on Monday aimed at forming a "grand ...
Iran says wants nuclear talks, but no concessions
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran insisted on Sunday that it wanted to return to nuclear negotiations with the European Union but gave no ground on the EU's key demand that it halt all nuclear ...
Italian politician killed in Mafia-style shooting
ROME (Reuters) - Masked gunmen believed to be Mafiosi shot dead a senior southern Italian politician as he was leaving a polling station on Sunday in the worst killing of its kind in ...
Three settlers, Islamic militant killed in W.Bank
GUSH ETZION, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed three Jewish settlers in a drive-by shooting and Israeli troops shot dead a senior Islamic militant in an eruption of ...
Child rescue a gleam of joy in Kashmir quake misery
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Soldiers pulled a young girl alive from the rubble of the Kashmir earthquake on Sunday, giving shattered Pakistan a moment of joy on a day when ...
US bombs Iraq city amid fighting, 25 dead: doctor
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Heavy fighting broke out in Ramadi, a rebellious city west of Baghdad, on Sunday and U.S. planes bombed areas in the east of the city, killing 25 people, ...
Romania culls fowl as Europe braces for bird flu
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian authorities slaughtered poultry and sent in doctors on Sunday after the deadly strain of bird flu was confirmed in the Danube delta, and officials ...
Iraq voters seen approving constitution
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi voters have probably approved a new U.S.-backed constitution, overcoming fierce Sunni Arab opposition in a vote Washington hopes will boost its beleaguered ...
Turkey's EU talks delight investors despite landmines
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union began the long, hard slog of entry negotiations on Tuesday with Turkey, the biggest and most challenging candidate it has ever tried to absorb.
Pakistanis arrest Taliban spokesman Hakimi
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The main spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, Abdul Latif Hakimi, was arrested in Pakistan on Tuesday, the Pakistani government said.
Strikes, protests put pressure on French govt
PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across France on Tuesday as a one-day strike snarled public transport, putting pressure on the government to change its ...
Four sentenced to death in Musharraf life attempt
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani military court sentenced four air force staff to death and two to life in jail on Tuesday for involvement in an al Qaeda-inspired assassination ...
Over 19,000 Serbs took part in Srebrenica: report
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - More than 19,000 Bosnian Serbs participated in the massacre at Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, a Bosnian government panel said ...
Iraq parliament may review referendum rules
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations expects Iraq's parliament to review rules on a forthcoming constitutional referendum after the world body criticized a decision making it ...
US warns of "creeping coup" in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - The United States, piling pressure on Sandinista and rightist opposition leaders that it accuses of undermining Nicaraguan democracy, revoked visas held ...
Dozens questioned as Bali bombing hunt widens
KUTA BEACH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian police had questioned dozens of people by Tuesday in a widening hunt for the masterminds of suicide bombs that killed 22 people on the ...
Hamas, Fatah vow peaceful end to Palestinian problems
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Leaders of Palestinian factions including rivals Fatah and Hamas pledged on Tuesday to refrain from violence in settling Palestinian problems after a firefight ...
Dictator-hunter homes in on "Africa's Pinochet"
DAKAR (Reuters) - A U.S. human rights lawyer who campaigns to bring ex-dictators accused of atrocities to justice has set his sights on snaring a former U.S.-backed ruler of Chad he ...
Saudis start Ramadan on Tuesday
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, will start the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Tuesday along with most other Gulf Arab states, regional state media said on ...
Ordination of married men is raised at Vatican synod
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church may someday have to consider ordaining married men in order to deal with the desperate shortage of priests, according to some ...
Schroeder gives a sign he may be ready to bow out
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder signaled on Monday he may be ready to give up power two weeks after Germany's most inconclusive post-war election, saying he would ...
Iraqi tribunal confirms Saddam trial date
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's special tribunal, the court set up to try Saddam Hussein, confirmed on Monday that the former president would be tried on October 19 for crimes against ...
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