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Report: Two Koreas to hold summit (AP)
AP - The leaders of North and South Korea will meet for their second-ever summit later this month, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, reprising the historic 2000 meeting that launched ...

Innocents get blame in sanctions namesake mixups
LONDON (Reuters) - On the face of it, Ismail Ahmed has little in common with former Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin, but the similarity in their names has made it tricky for the ...

Abbas sounds optimistic note after Olmert talks
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas promised Palestinians on Tuesday their lives would improve as a result of his talks this week with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Brazil nabs Colombian drug lord wanted in U.S.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - An alleged Colombian drug lord was arrested in Brazil on Tuesday and he could be extradited to face U.S. charges that he smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine ...

Six Russians freed in Nigerian oil delta
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Six Russian hostages were freed in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta on Tuesday after two months in captivity, a state government spokesman said.

Early 2007 saw record-breaking extreme weather: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United ...

UK asks U.S. to free residents from Guantanamo
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain asked the United States on Tuesday to release five British residents from Guantanamo Bay in a change of policy that may signal Prime Minister Gordon Brown is ...

Leaders of divided Koreas to hold summit: media
SEOUL (Reuters) - The leaders of the divided Koreas will hold a summit on August 28-30 in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, South Korean media reported on Wednesday.

Tourists and investors to Iraq? Why not, say Kurds
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The Ministry of Tourism has 417 employees and big plans: "We need three or four times as many hotels as we have now," says Nimrud Youkhana, the minister ...

U.N. has enough infantry for Darfur; needs aircraft
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has enough pledges for infantry soldiers, mainly from Africa, for the new Darfur force but needs specialists and attack helicopters from rich ...

Lebanon army squeezes militants, 3 troops killed
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Three soldiers were killed in combat on Monday as Lebanese troops advanced on Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp where the army made major ...

U.N. prosecutor urges delay on Kosovo future status
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes court for the Balkans on Monday urged a delay in deciding the future of Kosovo, saying it would interfere with her quest to ...

Charges fly after Serb fugitive's surprise arrest
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian nationalist politicians accused neighboring Montenegro on Monday of harboring a war crimes suspect for years, damaging Serbia's chances of closer ties with ...

UK police break Internet child abuse network
LONDON (Reuters) - Police have smashed a global Internet pedophile ring with 700 members and rescued more than 30 children from abuse, a police spokesman said on Monday.

New U.N. rights body will scrutinize all states
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations new human rights watchdog agreed on Monday rules for working that oblige all states -- even members of the Security Council -- to submit to periodic ...

Iran says U.N. ignores Israeli threats to Tehran
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran accused the U.N. Security Council of ignoring Israeli threats to attack the Islamic Republic and called on the body, in a letter made public on Monday, to ...

French poll forces Sarkozy into cabinet rethink
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced into a cabinet rethink on Monday after losing a senior minister in a parliamentary election that gave him an unexpectedly small ...

Barak sworn in as Israel's new defense minister
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former prime minister Ehud Barak was sworn in as Israel's defense minister on Monday in a cabinet shakeup rushed through in response to violence in Gaza.

North Korea plans to shut reactor in July: report
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea plans to seal its nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium, in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified ...

U.S. hands over $10 mln bounty to Philippine Muslims
JOLO, Philippines (Reuters) - The United States handed over $10 million in bounties to four Muslim men in the southern Philippines on Thursday for their role in the killing of two leaders ...

Baghdad school uses black humor to help children cope
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ten-year-old Saad ponders the question, cocking his head to one side and tapping his finger on his lips. He's just been asked the source of Iraq's wealth.

Sri Lanka battles rebels, evicts Tamils from capital
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military ...

Saudi Arabia says detains 11 suspected militants
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 11 suspected Islamist militants over the past 48 hours including one involved in an attack on a major Saudi oil installation, the state news ...

IOM says alarmed over rising trade in human organs
MANILA (Reuters) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expressed alarm on Thursday over rising cases of trade in human organs in Asia, and said globalization had increased ...

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