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Japanese city rejects plan for more US Marines
TOKYO (Reuters) - Voters in a Japanese city overwhelmingly rejected a plan on Sunday to bring more planes and troops to a nearby U.S. Marine base, complicating talks on relocating U.S.
French PM under pressure after protest
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin faced the biggest test of his 10 months in office on Sunday as he prepared to defend youth labor reforms which have ...
UK to urge Europe to help Iranians win more freedom
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will call on Monday for an expansion of global broadcasting in Iran and more material in Farsi published on the Internet in an effort to support Iranians' ...
Colombian voters elect Congress
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombians went to the polls on Sunday despite fear of rebel violence to elect a new Congress that will rule on legislation pushed by President Alvaro ...
Kosovo is the key to rise and fall of Milosevic
KOSOVO POLJE, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - This is arguably where it all began, the place where Slobodan Milosevic made his pitch to become the defender of Serbdom, telling the ...
Rice hopes to increase humanitarian aid to Palestinians
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - The United States is considering increasing humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday, and she urged ...
US ties with India and Pakistan on divergent paths
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian ...
US denies asking for Iranian help in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador in Baghdad denied on Sunday seeking Iran's help to calm violence in Iraq and said there were still concerns about the Islamic Republic's links ...
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 ...
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