Brazil foreign minister reports long talk with Clinton, acknowledges differences Brazilian diplomats denied Thursday that there is a crisis in relations with the ...
Outgoing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei fired a parting shot at Iran here Thursday, saying efforts to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of its ...
LONDON - APRIL 12: (FILE PHOTO) Computer hacker, Gary McKinnon leaves Bow Street Magistrates on April 12, 2006 in London. The British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has informed the McKinnon family today November 26, 2009 that he could not block his extradition ...
Iranian authorities confiscate medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests. Called by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the one-day meeting in the city of ...
Hamas deputy chief Mussa Abu Marzuk said on Thursday there has been progress on a prisoner swap for a captured Israeli soldier, amid reports that talks were snagged over a group of prisoners Israel refuses to free. "There is tangible progress," he ...
Indirect talks between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement over a prisoner exchange involving Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have been suspended until Tuesday, a Palestinian official said. "Negotiations on Shalit will resume after Eid al-Adha in Cairo on Tuesday," the official told ...
Tens of thousands of European Commission staff are in line for an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise -- even as the bloc is ordering member states to bolt down public budgets. Despite efforts by the European Commission to get European countries to ...
The United States, one of the few countries likely to recognize post-coup elections in Honduras, will watch the upcoming polls with "great interest," the US State Department said Thursday. Sunday's elections come amid a deep political crisis set off by the June ...
The United States and Poland have agreed terms for stationing US troops in Poland so that the deployment of US Patriot missiles can start next year, an official said Thursday. "Talks on an agreement allowing the military presence of the United States ...
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras chooses a new president on Sunday in an election that may defuse a crisis caused by a coup against President Manuel Zelaya, but the vote is splitting Washington and Latin America. Neither Zelaya nor arch-rival Roberto Micheletti, the ...
There are many reasons Japan's population is headed for a sharp decline, but one of them is that for working women giving birth usually spells the death of their careers. The country's new centre-left government -- trying to defuse a ticking demographic ...
