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Kenyan government unapologetic over media raid
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has defended this week's unprecedented police raid on a major media group which brought a torrent of accusations from at home and abroad that President Mwai ...
Embattled Thai PM vows to fight on despite boycott
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday his political future would be decided at the ballot box as the political opposition pressed ahead with a ...
Chinese police said to detain outspoken lawyer
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police detained an outspoken human rights lawyer in Beijing on Saturday, continuing an official crackdown on dissidents ahead of the opening of the ...
Putin-backed strongman appointed Chechen PM
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Ramzan Kadyrov, a strongman accused of mass human rights abuses, was appointed head of Chechnya's pro-Moscow government on Saturday.
Paris murder suspect leaves Ivory Coast for France
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast on Saturday sent back to France the suspected leader of a gang that tortured and killed a Jewish man near Paris last month.
Bomb blast in Turkish city hurts man, causes damage
ANKARA (Reuters) - A small bomb wounded one man and damaged dozens of buildings in western Turkey on Saturday, the state-run Anatolian news agency said.
Roadside bomb kills five in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed an Afghan intelligence official, three bodyguards and one other man in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.
Belarus leader denounces West
MINSK (Reuters) - President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday told Western critics to stay out of Belarus's affairs, while an opposition rival challenging his bid for re-election was ...
Police raid on Kenyan media sparks outrage
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Masked police armed with automatic rifles forced a Nairobi TV station off the air and raided its sister Standard newspaper on Thursday, provoking outrage among ...
Soviet Union ordered Pope shooting: Italy commission
ROME (Reuters) - Leaders of the former Soviet Union were behind the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981, an Italian parliamentary investigative commission said in ...
Holocaust victims sue France for theft
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Holocaust survivors and relatives of those who died sued France on Thursday seeking compensation for taking personal property during World War Two.
Officials try to hunt down source of bird flu
LAGOS (Reuters) - Illegal poultry imports may be to blame for introducing bird flu to Nigeria, officials said on Thursday, while U.S. agencies said they were struggling to plug gaps ...
Olmert orders "iron fist" against militants
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Thursday to use an "iron fist" against Palestinian militants, as polls showed his party's lead slipping ...
Three remanded over record British heist
LONDON (Reuters) - Two men and a woman appeared in court on Thursday, charged in connection with the biggest cash robbery in British history, a 53 million pound ($93 million) raid on a ...
U.N. watchdog welcomes US-India nuclear deal
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog welcomed a landmark civil nuclear deal between India and the United States on Thursday, saying it would end New Delhi's nuclear ...
Hamas heads to Moscow in search for legitimacy
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hamas embarks on a quest for international legitimacy on Friday with an official visit to Russia, marking the Islamic militant group's first talks with a major ...
Iraq parties rally for coalition after bloodshed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main political parties rallied behind efforts to form a national unity coalition after another day of sectarian violence on Thursday that U.S. and Iraqi ...
3 killed, dozens injured in Haiti carnival
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least three people died and more than 50 have been injured during carnival festivities in Haiti, which has been plagued by political and gang ...
Ivory Coast factions make progress at peace talks
YAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's rival faction leaders met on home territory for the first time on Tuesday since the start of a three-year-old conflict and agreed on several ...
Gunfire from Afghan prison after talks break down
PUL-I-CHARKHI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunfire was heard on Tuesday from a prison on the outskirts of Kabul taken over by hundreds of inmates at the weekend, and officials said a deal ...
Coup threats remain in Philippines: officials
MANILA (Reuters) - Military intelligence officials said there were still risks to Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, five days after an alleged plot to overthrow her was ...
US intelligence not certain NK has nuclear arms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States cannot say for certain that North Korea possesses any nuclear weapons but believes Pyongyang has continued to produce plutonium from its ...
Africans unsure on UN fielding Darfur force: UN
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The African Union appears to have second thoughts about handing over its mission in Sudan's Darfur region to U.N. command after heavy lobbying by Khartoum, ...
Saddam signed death warrant: prosecutor
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's trial read out documents in court on Tuesday which he said established that the former Iraqi leader signed a death ...
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