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At least six killed in Colombian earthquake

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BOGOTA (Reuters) - At least six people were killed when a shallow, 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia on Saturday, destroying homes and shaking buildings in the capital Bogota, where panicked residents fled into the streets.

Democrats take White House campaign to Puerto Rico

Reuters - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BAYAMON, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Democratic White House candidates made rare campaign stops in Puerto Rico on Saturday as Hillary Clinton's uphill challenge to secure the nomination was made even harder by controversy over her references to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy.

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Violence in Iraq falls to lowest level in 4 years

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level in more than four years, figures released by the U.S. military showed on Saturday, but officials said progress was still fragile and reversible.

Colombian government says top FARC commander dead

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Saturday the top commander of the FARC rebel group Manuel Marulanda, known as "Sureshot," was dead.

Gay activists march in Romania despite opposition

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Around 200 gay activists marched through Bucharest on Saturday in a heavily policed pride parade that defied efforts by religious and far-right groups to have the annual event banned.

Zardari unveils plan to drive Musharraf from power

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The head of the party leading Pakistan's ruling coalition unveiled proposed constitutional changes on Saturday that would take away President Pervez Musharraf's powers.

Iraq's Sadrists say crackdowns endanger truce

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Supporters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned the Iraqi government on Saturday that it was jeopardising a fragile truce, accusing security forces of attacking worshippers loyal to him in Baghdad and Basra.

Thousands march against South Africa violence

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched through South Africa's biggest city on Saturday, calling for an end to the violence that has killed at least 50 African migrants and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Tsvangirai says Mugabe wants to decimate opposition

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
HARARE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe on Saturday for an election run-off with President Robert Mugabe and said the veteran leader wanted to "decimate" MDC structures.

Pakistani Taliban leader vows jihad in Afghanistan

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
KOTKAI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The leader of the Pakistani Taliban vowed on Saturday to carry on fighting NATO and U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan regardless of negotiations for a peace deal with the government of Pakistan.

Ethiopia, Uganda deny breaking U.N. Somali arms ban

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia and Uganda on Saturday denied accusations by a U.N. weapons sanctions committee that their soldiers broke the world body's arms embargo on Somalia.

Three killed in Bosnia bus crash, over 50 injured

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 53 injured when a bus carrying Roman Catholic pilgrims from Croatia collided with a truck in northern Bosnia late on Friday, local media reported.

Russia hails China ties, defies Western critics

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday hailed ties with huge neighbor China as a key factor in global security, and said the sometimes uneasy neighbors were determined to boost cooperation even if it unnerved the West.

Floods displace 15,000 in Chile

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Heavy rains and flooding that killed five people and displaced thousands in south-central Chile have collapsed road and rail bridges, closed the world's largest underground copper mine and left many in the capital without drinking water, the government said on Friday.

China's Catholics visit shrine under watchful eyes

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Bells clanged, children played and police kept watch as pilgrims clutching rosary beads flocked to one of China's most revered Catholic shrines on Saturday, the day Pope Benedict XVI designated World Day of Prayer for China.

Indonesia targets poor with cash amid fuel protests

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government jacked up fuel prices on Saturday, sparking protests, but some $1.5 billion of cash handouts intended to cushion the blow for poor families could turn out to be a savvy move, politically and economically.

Burundi rebels say they will halt clashes with gov't

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi's last resisting rebel group has said it will stop sporadic fighting with the government to give a stalled peace deal a chance.

U.N. chief visits quake epicenter as toll leaps

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the epicenter of China's huge earthquake on Saturday, meeting victims and drawing an unspoken comparison with the sluggish aid efforts after a cyclone in neighboring Myanmar.

No love for NATO in Ukraine's pro-Russian enclave

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's pro-Western leaders hope to join NATO but the people of this Black Sea port, where Russian warships are moored at the quayside, want no part of it.

"No time to lose" for cyclone-hit Myanmar

Reuters - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:38
YANGON (Reuters) - There was "no time to lose" to help Myanmar's cyclone survivors after the secretive military government promised it would allow in more aid workers, disaster relief officials said on Saturday.

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