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Source: Reuters BOGOTA, July 6 (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe could easily win a third term in office as the popularity of the U.S.-backed leader shoots to over 90 percent after the dramatic rescue of ...
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Source: Reuters By Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM, July 6 (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet ordered the government's main watchdog on Sunday to review the use of wiretapping, in response to criticism over the handling of a ...
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Source: Reuters By Wafa Amr JERUSALEM, July 6 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas travelled to Syria on Sunday looking for insight on his Islamist rivals' attitudes to reconciliation -- but he had no ...
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Source: Reuters BRUSSELS, July 6 (Reuters) - The European Commission is ready to provide up to 250 million euros ($393 million) in development aid for Zimbabwe's worst-hit sectors if the country gets a legitimate, ...
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Source: Reuters (Edits) By Kamran Haider ISLAMABAD, July 6 (Reuters) - An apparent suicide bomber killed more than 10 people and wounded others in an attack on police guarding Islamists who were marking the ...
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Source: Reuters By Rebecca Harrison and Ori Lewis JERUSALEM, July 6 (Reuters) - Israeli police have concluded that a Palestinian construction worker who killed three Israelis with a bulldozer in Jerusalem last week ...
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Source: Reuters BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) - At least 21 miners were killed by carbon monoxide gas poisoning in a coal mine in northern China on Sunday, the latest in a series of disasters in an industry stretched by ...
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Source: Reuters By Lucy Hornby SAPPORO, Japan, July 6 (Reuters) - Climate change could cut South Africa's maize crop by 20 percent within 15 to 20 years as the west of the country dries out while the east is ...
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Source: Reuters (For more G8 summit stories, click on [G7/G8]) TOYAKO, Japan, July 6 (Reuters) - The head of the European Union's executive said on Sunday the United States and other rich nations might be ready to ...
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Source: Reuters By Avida Landau OUTSIDE NILIN, West Bank, July 6 (Reuters) - Shots sounded from a Palestinian town on Sunday as local people marched in defiance of a daylight curfew imposed by Israeli troops who ...
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Source: Reuters (For more G8 summit stories, click on [G7/G8]) By Yoko Kubota and Alan Wheatley TOYAKO, Japan, July 7 (Reuters) - The Group of Eight rich nations will seek to convince a sceptical Africa on Monday ...
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Source: Reuters JOHANNESBURG, July 6 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday called on the international community to unite in condemning the re-election of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe ...
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Source: IRIN Ahsan Khan, 35, has lived in Peshawar almost all his life. He never imagined he would one day consider moving away - but that day has come. Because of ongoing hostilities between militants and government forces, the young businessman, his wife and two small children are seriously considering leaving the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
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Source: Reuters UAE CANCELS ENTIRE DEBT OWED TO IT BY IRAQ, TOTALS JUST UNDER $7 BLN INCLUDING INTEREST, ARREARS -UAE SOURCE ...
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Source: Reuters DAMASCUS, July 6 (Reuters) - Syrian authorities said on Sunday they had restored order at a military jail near Damascus after a riot during which an opposition group said dozens of prisoners were ...
