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Iran agrees to Solana's nuclear trip, no date set

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it had agreed to a visit by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to submit an upgraded package of incentives aimed at coaxing the country into halting uranium enrichment, a news agency reported.

Rival Lebanese close to deal to defuse crisis

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
DOHA (Reuters) - Rival Lebanese leaders were close to agreeing a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that has pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war.

Third bomb attack in Pakistan in days wounds seven

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants set off a roadside bomb as a Pakistani military truck was passing on Tuesday, wounding seven people in the third bomb attack in the country in two days.

Olmert loses first legal challenge in bribery case

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert lost his first court challenge on Tuesday against a bribery investigation that could force him from office.

Iraqi forces launch operation in cleric's bastion

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi army launched an operation on Tuesday to take control of Baghdad's Sadr City slum, the power base of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Flags at half-mast as U.N. aid envoy presses Myanmar

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
YANGON (Reuters) - Flags across Myanmar flew at half-mast on Tuesday for the victims of Cyclone Nargis as the U.N.'s top aid envoy pressed the military government to allow foreign helicopters to fly in supplies to survivors.

Taiwan's new president offers China dialogue

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's new president took office on Tuesday with a historic offer to reopen dialogue with China, which claims the island as its territory, but pledged to maintain Taipei's existing self-rule and separate international profile.

U.S. Navy aircraft violates Venezuela's airspace

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
CARACAS (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy jet violated Venezuelan airspace around two small Caribbean islands over the weekend in what the South American country said was a provocation coordinated with neighboring Colombia.

Latin, prayers, chilly dorms at school in France

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
CHAVAGNES-EN-PAILLERS, France (Reuters) - Learning Latin, attending Catechism and hurrying along draughty corridors to prayer, two dozen boys are experiencing old-fashioned British boarding school life -- deep in the French countryside.

Gunmen kill 11 police recruits in Iraq

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi and U.S. forces have arrested about 100 suspects thought to be crucial to the operations of militant groups in al Qaeda's last haven of north Iraq, the commander of U.S. forces in the area said on Monday.

Venezuela says U.S. violated its Caribbean airspace

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace around two small Caribbean islands over the weekend in what it said was a provocation coordinated with neighboring Colombia.

Dalai Lama hails fall of Berlin Wall

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama hailed the fall of the Berlin Wall as a symbol of peaceful protest in an address to some 20,000 supporters which strove to reassure China he was not seeking independence for Tibet.

Hamas officials in Egypt for Israel truce talks

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) - Leaders from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas arrived in Egypt on Monday to hear Israel's response to a six-month truce offer between Palestinians in Gaza and the Jewish state.

U.N. calls for cluster bomb ban at global gathering

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The United Nations urged the world on Monday to back a global ban on cluster bombs, calling the munitions unreliable and indiscriminate.

Drought and food prices threaten millions of Somalis: U.N.

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
ROME (Reuters) - Soaring food prices, a devalued currency and drought mean millions of people in Somalia cannot feed themselves, the United Nations said on Monday.

Bomb under bed kills local Iraqi police chief

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A local Iraqi police chief was killed on Monday when a bomb placed under his bed in the local police headquarters exploded as he slept, police said.

Palestinian forces arrest two Islamic Jihad militants

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas have arrested two Islamic Jihad leaders, a Palestinian security official said on Monday, in a U.S.-backed law-and-order campaign in the occupied West Bank.

Zimbabwe opposition says army plots to kill leader

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition accused military intelligence agents on Monday of a plot to kill party leader Morgan Tsvangirai that it said forced him to postpone his return to the country over the weekend.

Drought returns to haunt Ethiopia

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
SIRARO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopian mother Ayantu Tamon has lost a child to hunger every year for the last four and now cradles her severely malnourished and weakened three-year-old son Hirbu in her arms.

New Taiwan president to take reins, court China

Tue, 2024-11-26 16:15
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's President-elect, Ma Ying-jeou, will take office on Tuesday with a pledge to improve ties with China, symbolically sending his party's chairman to Beijing as one of his first acts in power.