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U.S. blames Shi'ite group for Baghdad bomb

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces on Wednesday blamed a rogue Shi'ite militia group seeking to stir up sectarian violence for a devastating truck bombing that killed 63 people in Baghdad.

Iran not withdrawing funds from Europe: bank head

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian banks are not moving funds from Europe, the head of a state bank was quoted as saying, contradicting reports that Tehran was withdrawing assets in the face of tightening sanctions over its nuclear program.

Georgia frees Russian troops detained in Abkhazia

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia said on Wednesday it had released four Russian peacekeeping troops detained a day earlier near its breakaway region of Abkhazia on suspicion of transporting weapons without proper documents.

China rushes to fix dams, 9,000 square miles flooded

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
FENGKOU, China (Reuters) - China has posted hundreds of police and rescue officials to shore up dams threatening to burst under torrential rain that has already flooded 9,000 square miles of crops and homes.

Video shows Fidel in meeting with Chavez, brother

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, looking thin but animated, was shown on Cuban TV on Tuesday with his brother, President Raul Castro, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in the first public images of the bearded revolutionary since January.

Hope and doubt over truce across Israel-Gaza border

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
NIR OZ, Israel/GAZA (Reuters) - For Yossi Atzili, a truce with Hamas Islamists is the only way to stop mortar bombs from the Gaza Strip whizzing across the border and smashing into his paint factory in Israel.

Security and choreography mark Silk Road torch relay

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was paraded on Wednesday through China's sensitive former Silk Road city of Kashgar, home to ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs, under the scrutiny of soldiers and choreographed cheering crowds.

Hundreds flee as fighting looms in Afghan south

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of families fled their homes in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as Afghan and foreign forces prepared for an offensive to confront Taliban fighters who have overrun several villages.

Chavez, ailing Castro have "animated" meeting

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
HAVANA (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had an "animated and warm" meeting with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a visit to Havana, state-run media said on Tuesday, but no photos or videos of the left-wing allies were made public.

Hope and doubt over truce across Israel-Gaza border

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
NIR OZ, Israel/GAZA (Reuters) - For Yossi Atzili, a truce with Hamas Islamists is the only way to stop mortar bombs from the Gaza Strip whizzing across the border and smashing into his paint factory in Israel.

Guinea troops storm police camp to end pay mutiny

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Elite troops in Guinea stormed a police base on Tuesday in a bloody shoot-out with members of an anti-riot brigade to put down a two-day police mutiny over pay, officers and witnesses said.

Ethiopia and Eritrea risk new border war: report

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The armies of feuding Horn of Africa neighbors Ethiopia and Eritrea are "less than a football pitch" apart, risking a catastrophic new war on their border, a think-tank warned on Tuesday.

Hearings in July on Turkey's ruling party

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's top court will hold its first hearings in early July in a case aimed at outlawing the ruling AK Party for Islamist activities, a court source said on Tuesday.

British "dog of war" on trial, faces 32 years jail

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
MALABO (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann, one of Africa's last "dogs of war", went on trial in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday and the prosecution asked he be jailed for nearly 32 years for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot.

Britain's "lyrical terrorist" wins court appeal

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, won an appeal against a criminal conviction in London on Tuesday.

NATO head pledges to forge consensus on Ukraine

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
KIEV (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Tuesday he would try to persuade all NATO members to back the idea of extending to Ukraine a Membership Action Plan (MAP), a step to joining the military alliance.

Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza truce, officials say

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
GAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will begin on Thursday, a Palestinian official said, after Israeli air strikes killed six militants in the Gaza Strip.

Eq. Guinea seeks 32 yrs jail for UK mercenary Mann

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
MALABO (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's state prosecutor asked a court on Tuesday to sentence British mercenary Simon Mann to nearly 32 years in prison for his role in a failed 2004 coup.

Italy's Berlusconi tries to remove trial judge

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
MILAN (Reuters) - Lawyers for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sought on Tuesday the removal of a judge trying him and British lawyer David Mills for graft, after Berlusconi accused the court of political bias.

Abbas Fatah envoys in Gaza but Hamas talks uncertain

Wed, 2024-11-27 13:08
GAZA (Reuters) - Envoys from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to brief members there on his bid for reconciliation with the territory's Islamist Hamas rulers, officials said.