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Haitians struggle with rising costs despite gains
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - While international donors have praised Haiti's recent economic improvements, some Haitians say President Rene Preval's government has not done enough to lower ...

China deepens religious repression in Tibet: report
BEIJING (Reuters) - Religious repression in the Chinese ruled Himalayan region of Tibet is tightening, with authorities intensifying pressure on monks to denounce the exiled Dalai Lama, a ...

Cuban human rights activists march for jailed kin
HAVANA (Reuters) - Fifty female relatives of Cuban political prisoners marched on Sunday to National Assembly headquarters demanding the release of their loved ones and braving insults and ...

Arab Christians try new ways to sustain spirit
CAIRO (Reuters) - Organizers billed it as one of the largest events of its kind in the Arab world.

UNICEF cites child health progress, work remains
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Progress in expanding breast-feeding and fighting measles and malaria has improved the health of children worldwide, but many in developing nations still don't have ...

Shun excessive materialism at Christmas, Pope says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Sunday urged Catholics to rediscover the religious significance of Christmas, saying the holiday should not be dominated by materialism.

Pakistan's Sharif opts to take part in election
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will take part in a January general election after failing to arrange a boycott pact with his rival Benazir ...

Ambitious EU-Africa summit ends in trade deadlock
LISBON (Reuters) - Africa and Europe's first summit in seven years ended on Sunday without agreement on the key issue of trade, dealing a blow to efforts to forge a new economic partnership ...

Canadian pig farmer convicted for serial killings
NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian pig farmer was convicted on Sunday of the serial killings of six women whose bodies were butchered like animals in his farm's ...

Prodi narrowly wins Italy Senate confidence vote
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi narrowly won a vote of confidence in the upper house of parliament on Thursday over a security package that would allow the expulsion of ...

U.N. aid chief says need growing in Sudan and Somalia
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The top U.N. aid official called on Thursday for big increases in assistance for refugees in Somalia and Sudan next year as security deteriorated for millions of ...

Cuban church takes up dissident beatings with government
HAVANA (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba said on Thursday it was seeking an explanation from country's communist authorities for the beating and arrest of dissidents in a parish ...

Mediators prepare Kosovo report
PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - A Kosovo TV station has for months displayed a number at the top of screens, counting down the days until mediators report to the United Nations on failed talks ...

Lebanese presidential vote unlikely on Friday
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's presidential election is unlikely to take place on Friday as planned because rival leaders have yet to finalize a political deal to make the army chief ...

Mugabe arrives in Lisbon for EU-Africa summit
LISBON (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived in Lisbon late on Thursday for an EU-Africa summit, which British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is boycotting because he would ...

Thousands march in latest youth rally for Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of young provincial Russians marched to the Kremlin on Thursday to express support for President Vladimir Putin but many said the main attraction was a free ...

Protests as Pakistan opposition argue boycott terms
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani lawyers and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif took to the streets on Thursday to demand President Pervez Musharraf reinstate sacked judges, trying to ...

Parcel bomb kills woman in Paris law office
PARIS (Reuters) - A parcel bomb killed a legal secretary and injured five other people on Thursday in a Paris building housing a law firm partly owned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Olmert and Abbas plan for first post-Annapolis talks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met top advisers on Thursday to prepare for his first meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since the two leaders ...

Myanmar protest monk jailed for seven years
YANGON (Reuters) - A Buddhist monk has been jailed for seven and a half years for taking part in mass protests against Myanmar's military junta which the army put down ruthlessly, a ...

Zimbabwe inflation hits record high
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's inflation hit a record high in September after emergency measures by President Robert Mugabe failed to slow an economic crisis which appears to pose the only ...

Russia charges nine in Politkovskaya case
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prosecutors have charged nine people, including a lieutenant-colonel in Russia's security service, with involvement in the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Anna ...

Hundreds of Afghans stage anti-US protest
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghans staged a protest against the United States on Wednesday, saying U.S. troops had thrown a copy of the Koran during an operation in the ...

French media says Sarkozys seen divorce judge
PARIS (Reuters) - French media reported on Wednesday that President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia appeared before a judge at the start of the week to begin formal divorce proceedings.

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