| Iraqis open arms to romance as violence fades
February 14, 2009 at 8:15 am
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Romance is in the air in Baghdad as war-weary Iraqis celebrate Valentine's Day after a sharp drop in violence, allowing lovers to cautiously hold hands in parks and to buy gifts for their sweethearts. |
| U.S. missile strike kills 25 militants in Pakistan
February 14, 2009 at 7:49 am
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| WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. missile attack killed at least 25 al Qaeda-linked militants in a Pakistani tribal region on Saturday, security and Taliban officials said, the highest death toll of militants in a single such strike. |
| New Zimbabwe PM says Mugabe no longer main problem
February 14, 2009 at 7:27 am
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| HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the world should no longer see President Robert Mugabe as the main problem in the country as a new unity government tries to rescue the ruined economy. |
| Soviet vets, 20 years on, warn Obama on Afghanistan
February 14, 2009 at 7:05 am
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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Soviet veterans marking 20 years since their defeat in Afghanistan warned the United States it would never truly control the country, citing bitter memories of a fiercely proud people and unforgiving landscape. |
| Somali parliament endorses new prime minister
February 14, 2009 at 7:02 am
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| DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - Somalia's parliament endorsed on Saturday the appointment of the Western-educated son of a slain former president as prime minister in a unity government tasked with restoring order to the failed Horn of Africa state. |
| Australian firefighters close to containing blazes
February 14, 2009 at 3:16 am
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| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian firefighters are close to containing bushfires that killed at least 181 people, officials said on Saturday, while police allowed one of the worst-hit communities a brief visit to their devastated town. |
| Myanmar jails opposition MPs ahead of U.N. envoy visit
February 14, 2009 at 2:32 am
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| YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar court handed 15-year jail terms to two senior opposition politicians on the eve of a visit by a U.N. human rights envoy, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said on Saturday. |
| South Korean, Philippine sailors freed by Somali pirates
February 13, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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| SEOUL (Reuters) - Somali pirates have released an oil tanker and its crew of 23 sailors from South Korea and the Philippines after holding them hostage for three months, South Korea's foreign ministry said on Saturday. |
| U.S. links Moscow help on Iran to missile shield
February 13, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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| MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States signaled a willingness on Friday to slow plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe if Russia agreed to help stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. |
| Australian firefighters close to containing blazes
February 13, 2009 at 6:21 pm
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| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian firefighters said on Saturday they were making progress putting out the last of the bushfires that killed at least 181 people, and hoped to bring all the blazes under control soon. |
| Venezuela opposition complains of Chavez tactics
February 13, 2009 at 6:10 pm
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| CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition accused President Hugo Chavez on Friday of spending government money and clamping down on protests in the campaign to extend his rule for at least another decade. |
| Global lenders warn of risks to emerging markets
February 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund and the world's big development banks warned on Friday that emerging and developing countries that lack deep pockets to protect themselves against the crushing impact of a global financial crisis may need help soon. |
| Taliban is in "huge" amounts of Pakistan: Zardari
February 13, 2009 at 5:54 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Taliban has established itself across a large part of Pakistan, forcing the country to fight a war against the hard-line Islamist group that is about Pakistan's own survival, President Asif Zardari told CBS News. |
| U.S. links Moscow help on Iran to missile shield
February 13, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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| MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States signaled a willingness on Friday to slow plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe if Russia agreed to help stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. |
| BA plane's undercarriage fails on landing, 4 hurt
February 13, 2009 at 5:18 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Passengers used emergency slides to evacuate a British Airways plane when its nosewheel collapsed on landing at London's City airport on Friday, injuring four people, officials said. |
| Zimbabwe MDC official charged with treason: party
February 13, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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| HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police charged a senior MDC official with treason on Friday, just hours after a unity cabinet comprising the opposition party and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF was sworn in, the MDC said. |
| Abducted U.N. official in Pakistan appears in video
February 13, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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| QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Kidnappers of an American working for the U.N. refugee agency in Pakistan on Friday released a video in which he pleaded for the United Nations to help win his release. |
| Israel's Livni, Netanyahu may seek unity coalition
February 13, 2009 at 11:33 am
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's two political rivals may forge a unity government after centrist Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni narrowly defeated rightist Benjamin Netanyahu but he seemed to have more allies, Israeli politicians said on Friday. |
| Australian man charged over deadly bushfires
February 13, 2009 at 10:51 am
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| STEELS CREEK, Australia (Reuters) - Australian police charged a man with "arson causing death" Friday over one of the country's deadly bushfires, which killed 181 people. |
| Hu launches China's "largest gift" to West Africa
February 13, 2009 at 10:21 am
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| BAMAKO (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao laid the first brick of a "Friendship Bridge" in Mali's capital on Friday, calling it China's largest ever gift to impoverished West Africa. |
| U.S. offers Moscow concession on missile shield
February 13, 2009 at 10:11 am
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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States is ready to look at re-modeling its missile defense plans to include Moscow, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Friday in a concession to Russian opposition. |
| Russia says deal near on UN monitors in Georgia
February 13, 2009 at 10:11 am
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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Major powers are close to a deal in the United Nations that will allow ceasefire observers to continue working in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Russia said on Friday. |
| Female bomber kills 32 on Iraqi pilgrimage route
February 13, 2009 at 10:07 am
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| KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 32 people and wounding 84 others south of Baghdad during one of the holiest events of the Shi'ite calendar, police said. |
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