Polls suggest former guerrilla Jose Mujica will be Uruguay's next president Uruguay's likely next president tried to lead an armed revolution as a ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its feet on global warming, will attend U.N. ...
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 ...
Outgoing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei fired a parting shot at Iran here Thursday, saying efforts to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme have reached a dead end, as the UN atomic watchdog considered censuring Tehran. Iran's delegate to 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 ...
Ireland's Catholic Church apologised Thursday after a damning new report showed it covered up child sex abuse over more than three decades. The Irish government also said sorry for failing to protect children in the wake of the latest report, published six ...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made it a personal priority to rein in European Union proposals to regulate financial services from Brussels, a source said Thursday. "Britain's concerns on this area remain -- it's obviously going to go to the top political ...
