HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible ...
Iranian authorities confiscate medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human ...
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 ...
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 young man, hiding in sewers, killing a police officer and twice escaping prison through elaborately dug tunnels. Polls suggest ...
LONDON - MAY 10: (FILE PHOTO) Gary McKinnon leaves Bow Street Magistrates court after failing in his bid to escape extradition on May 10, 2006 in London. The British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has informed the McKinnon family today November 26, 2009 ...
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 ...
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 ...
