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Two held by Hezbollah badly wounded: Israeli sources
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded during their capture by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in July and at least one of them could now be dead, senior Israeli ...
Ethiopian troops moving on Somali supply route: witnesses
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - About 500 Ethiopian troops were spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods stalled a feared ...
Legacies bind Castro, Pinochet in their twilight
SANTIAGO/HAVANA (Reuters) - Fighting serious illnesses in their old age, Cold War icons Fidel Castro of Cuba and Augusto Pinochet of Chile are united in stubborn adherence to their opposing ...
Iran to hold Holocaust conference next week
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Ministry will hold a conference next week at which scholars from 30 countries will discuss the scale of the Holocaust -- dismissed as a myth by President ...
Fiji army warns against uprising, appoints interim PM
SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji's military chief said on Wednesday his troops would quickly suppress any uprising, as the country's deposed prime minister called for non-violent protests against the ...
U.S. charges son of ex-Liberian leader with torture
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was charged in the United States on Wednesday with committing torture in Liberia, the Justice Department's first ...
Canada's top policeman quits over deportation case
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's top policeman resigned on Wednesday, a day after he admitted misleading legislators about how his force had botched the case of a Canadian deported to Syria by ...
Venezuela's Chavez rejects U.S. rapprochement overture
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Within hours of President Hugo Chavez's re-election on Sunday, Washington made overtures to open dialogue with Venezuela. But the man who calls President ...
UK's Brown pledges schools boost
LONDON (Reuters) - UK Chancellor Gordon Brown gave an upbeat assessment of the economy on Wednesday, pledging billions of pounds for schools as he prepared the ground to take over as prime ...
France says in a hurry to reach Iran sanctions deal
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday world powers must agree quickly on sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program or put the credibility of the United Nations at risk.
Couples queue for passion in a Dutch car on stilts
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Couples in Amsterdam are writing out their dreams of passion for the chance to spend a night in a small car fitted with a bed and hoisted up on poles.
Venezuelan Chavez wants to be world's anti-U.S. voice
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez staked a claim to be the world's leading anti-American voice by branding President Bush as the devil in a speech to ...
Japan voters worry about Abe's leadership ability
TOKYO (Reuters) - A hefty majority of Japanese voters support the country's new prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe, two media surveys published on Friday showed, but many also have ...
Russia slams NATO over ties with Georgia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday denounced moves by NATO to forge closer ties with Georgia, saying any eventual membership of the Western alliance by the ex-Soviet state would ...
Nasrallah makes first postwar public appearance
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appeared in public on Friday for the first time since a 34-day war with Israel despite Israeli threats to kill him.
Rioters, police clash again on Budapest streets
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany on Wednesday blamed opposition parties for a second night of clashes between rioters and police, saying they had failed ...
Islamists advance on Somali port: officials
KISMAYO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali Islamist militia were advancing on the strategic port of Kismayo on Friday with the aim of seizing it to expand their control of the Horn of Africa ...
Nineteen Afghan workers killed in ambush
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nineteen Afghan laborers heading home from work were killed on Friday in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said.
Muslims want to know more on Pope's view of Islam
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Following a wave of protests against Pope Benedict's remarks on Islam, Muslim intellectuals in Turkey are asking what he really thinks about their faith and what ...
CORRECTED: Argentina dirty-war criminal gets life sentence
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - A retired police commissioner was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for murder, torture and kidnappings during Argentina's "dirty war," in ...
Yemen votes for president, incumbent in early lead
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemenis voted on Wednesday in elections that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to win despite a challenge from a former minister.
Quartet welcomes Palestinian unity government
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators on Wednesday endorsed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' effort to establish a national unity government with ...
Israel plans full Lebanon pullout within days
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel intends to complete a troop withdrawal from Lebanon by the weekend, Defense Minister Amir Peretz said on Wednesday, as Germany and Malaysia took steps to ...
Iraq deaths surge over last two months: UN
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds more Iraqis died in violence in July and August than in the previous two months, many of them tortured to death because of their religion with cables, ...
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