U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque. (reuters_tickers). LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his ...
A collapsed church is seen after an earthquake in Borgo Sant'Antonio near Visso, central Italy, October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Max Rossi. (reuters_tickers). By Steve Scherer. ROME (Reuters) - Italy has defended its rule-breaking 2017 budget to the European ...
SULEIMAN BEG Iraq (Reuters) - A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives. Some had brought spades to help dig up ...
GENEVA/FREETOWN (Reuters) - Liberia, the country worst hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic, should see thousands of new cases in coming weeks as the virus spreads exponentially, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. The epidemic ...
SYDNEY/GENEVA (Reuters) - Several member states of the World Trade Organisation voiced frustration after India's demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling led to the collapse of the first major global trade reform pact in two decades.
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region asked its parliament on Thursday to plan a referendum on Kurdish independence, signalling his impatience with Baghdad, which is fighting to repel Sunni insurgents and struggling to ...
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia failed to end a gas pricing dispute at talks on Saturday but agreed to meet again on Sunday, a day before a Russian deadline for Kiev to pay a $1.95 billion debt or have its gas supplies cut off. Halting deliveries to Kiev ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Tuesday welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian unity government that came about thanks to a reconciliation deal between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and Hamas Islamists.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta has appointed as advisers two retired generals with palace connections, putting powerful establishment figures hostile towards former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra firmly in the ascendant in the country's ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday economic growth in the continent's most advanced economy would be the focus of his second term, as he was inaugurated in the nation's capital, Pretoria. The national ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday talks over Tehran's nuclear programme had reached an important and tough juncture, but an agreement was still possible by a July deadline. The lack of progress in talks in Vienna ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Thirty-one children and one adult were killed in Colombia on Sunday when fuel exploded on a broken-down bus returning from a church event, an emergency response coordinator said. The charred bodies of victims were being identified ...
A look back at the life of award-winning Swiss artist HR Giger, who died this week aged 74. (SRF Ganz & Gloria/Tagesschau, swissinfo.ch). Hans Ruedi Giger was a surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer. He was born in Chur, Switzerland in 1940, and ...
UNGWAN GATA/ABUJA Nigeria (Reuters) - When Fulani raiders carrying rifles, machetes and clubs stormed his village one night last month, Pius Nna was stunned to see his teenage nephew among them. "He was leading them and telling them to check very ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah offered his resignation on Friday, the official news agency WAFA said, a move which may pave the way for a unity government agreed between President Mahmoud Abbas and ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran says that a plane which landed in Tehran airport flying the American flag was leased to Ghana's presidential office and carrying a business delegation from the West African nation. The New York Times reported on Thursday that a plane ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Pop stars, actors and mechanics - these are just some of the people hoping to become MPs when the world's third largest democracy heads to the polls on Wednesday in a vote that will heavily influence who becomes Indonesia's next ...
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's government has resigned and town planning minister Moussa Mara will become prime minister, a presidential spokesman said on state television late on Saturday. Outgoing prime minister Oumar Tatam Ly submitted the entire ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed in clashes between rival families in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, health and security officials said on Saturday. The violence erupted late Friday after students from the feuding families had scrawled ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Chadian soldiers killed 30 civilians and seriously wounded more than 300 in an indiscriminate attack on a market on March 29 in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, a spokesman for the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Instagram
Google+
YouTube
LinkedIn
RSS