| France's Sarkozy in Iraq to rebuild ties
February 10, 2009 at 6:52 am
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Baghdad on Tuesday seeking business opportunities and an improvement in ties damaged by French opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. |
| Zimbabwe finmin to focus on stability, investment
February 10, 2009 at 6:42 am
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| HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday appointed Tendai Biti to be finance minister in a unity government and said he would focus on creating economic stability and attracting foreign investment. |
| Australia fears more than 200 dead in bushfires
February 10, 2009 at 6:41 am
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| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police combed through a blackened landscape searching for clues in the hunt for possible arsonists on Tuesday as the death toll from the nation's worst bushfires looked likely to top 200. |
| Sri Lanka rebels gun down 19 fleeing people-military
February 10, 2009 at 6:41 am
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| COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down 19 people fleeing Sri Lanka's war zone and the bodies were carried among the more than 1,000 civilians who reported to army-held areas on Tuesday, the military said. |
| Iran says ready for fair talks, wants real U.S. change
February 10, 2009 at 6:39 am
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready for talks with the United States based on mutual respect but wants real U.S. policy change, the president said on Tuesday, in his most measured remarks to America since President Barack Obama took office. |
| Israel votes in tight election
February 10, 2009 at 6:20 am
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis voted on Tuesday in a tight election race, with right-wing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu bidding to oust the centrist party of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. |
| Berlusconi accuses rivals over coma woman's death
February 10, 2009 at 6:13 am
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| UDINE, Italy (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Eluana Englaro, who died in the middle of a debate about her right to die after 17 years in coma, had been killed and the head of state was among those responsible. |
| Blast kills two NATO soldiers in Afghanistan
February 10, 2009 at 5:59 am
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| KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomb hit a convoy of NATO-led troops and killed two soldiers in southeastern Afghanistan Tuesday, officials said. |
| Japan PM ratings slide to 14 percent as election looms
February 10, 2009 at 5:42 am
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| TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has fallen to 14 percent, a survey showed on Tuesday, a level which could prompt his party to try to replace him ahead of an election the opposition looks increasingly likely to win. |
| Security tops agenda for Holbrooke in Pakistan
February 10, 2009 at 5:31 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's under-pressure civilian leaders sought on Tuesday to reassure the new U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan on a range of security issues tied to growing Islamist militancy. |
| Canada defends rising Afghan costs as crisis bites
February 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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| OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said on Monday that the rising cost of the country's military mission in Afghanistan was worth the expense, even though the economic crisis is starting to bite hard. |
| U.S., France discuss Afghan war, avoid troops issue
February 9, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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| PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. regional military chief General David Petraeus and French Defense Minister Herve Morin discussed the security situation in Afghanistan on Monday but stayed away from the issue of France sending more troops there. |
| Mexico to fingerprint phone users in crime fight
February 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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| MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will start a national register of mobile phone users that will include fingerprinting all customers in an effort to catch criminals who use the devices to extort money and negotiate kidnapping ransoms. |
| Cuba rejects Western calls to free jailed critics
February 9, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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| GENEVA (Reuters) - Cuba rejected calls from Western countries on Monday to release jailed critics of its communist system and told the U.N. Human Rights Council such demands violated its sovereign rights. |
| Karadzic seeks to quiz U.S. diplomat over immunity
February 9, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has requested to interview a U.S. diplomat and be given access to documents he says prove he was offered immunity to war crimes charges at the U.N. Yugoslavia tribunal. |
| U.S. seeks assurances from Pakistan over A.Q. Khan
February 9, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sought "solid" assurances from Pakistan it will take steps to prevent freed nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan from nuclear proliferation in the future, a senior U.S. official said on Monday. |
| Suicide bomber kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
February 9, 2009 at 1:46 pm
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| MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives near a U.S. patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing four U.S. soldiers and their interpreter, the U.S. military said. |
| Fire claims building at CCTV Beijing headquarters
February 9, 2009 at 10:04 am
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - Fire consumed a building in Beijing that formed part of Central China Television's new headquarters, as residents launched fireworks throughout the city to celebrate the Lantern Festival Monday evening. |
| Hamas cries foul over death in West Bank custody
February 9, 2009 at 9:51 am
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| RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian security officials in the West Bank denied accusations on Monday by their Islamist rivals that a man who died in their custody had been killed by President Mahmoud Abbas's Western-backed forces. |
| Pakistan takes first step to Mumbai prosecution
February 9, 2009 at 9:42 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan took the first step on Monday toward prosecution of the people behind the Mumbai attacks, but said it would be difficult to proceed without "substantial evidence" from India. |
| Merkel loses Economy Minister ahead of election
February 9, 2009 at 9:14 am
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| BERLIN (Reuters) - Conservative Michael Glos stood down as Germany's economy minister to make way for newcomer Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Monday, dealing a blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's preparations for this year's federal election. |
| Female suicide bomber kills 28 in Sri Lanka
February 9, 2009 at 9:04 am
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| COLOMBO (Reuters) - A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber hiding among people fleeing Sri Lanka's war blew herself up on Monday, killing at least 28 civilians and soldiers and wounding 90, the military said. |
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