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No timetable in draft deal on U.S. troops: Iraq

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators completed a draft deal on Wednesday to give U.S. troops a legal basis to stay in Iraq after 2008, without setting out a timetable for their withdrawal, Iraq's top negotiator said.

UK's Brown to raise human rights with China

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
ON BOARD FLIGHT TO BEIJING (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged China on Wednesday to make more progress on human rights, saying the issue needed to be addressed not only during the Olympic Games.

Zambian VP takes charge, will call fresh polls

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian Vice President Rupiah Banda, a prominent businessman, has taken over as head of government after the death of President Levy Mwanawasa and will call early elections, officials said on Wednesday.

153 killed in Madrid airport plane crash

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish jet heading for the Canary Islands crashed on takeoff and burst into flames at Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing 153 of the people on board, the government said.

Lebanese calls for Arabs to embrace Iraq

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora vowed on Wednesday to strengthen ties with Iraq, calling for it to be "reintegrated into the Arab world", as he became the second Arab leader to visit since Saddam Hussein's fall.

Mugabe to open parliament despite warning

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will officially open parliament on Tuesday despite opposition warnings that such a move would endanger crucial power-sharing talks.

Pakistan coalition may-split post-Musharraf: analysts

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Deadlock between Pakistan's coalition partners over the restoration of deposed judges has raised questions about the survival of the government that forced President Pervez Musharraf's resignation.

Algeria bombs kill 12 as violence escalates

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
BOUIRA, Algeria (Reuters) - Two car bombs in Algeria killed 12 people and wounded 42 on Wednesday, the latest attacks in the bloodiest week of unrest in years and a blow to hopes the OPEC member state can soon end an Islamist insurgency.

Floods force thousands to flee homes in India, Nepal

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains left some 50,000 people homeless in India's remote northeast, officials said on Wednesday, warning of more rains in one of the country's most flood-prone regions.

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes eastern Japan

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) - A earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 jolted eastern Japan on Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Sarkozy says troops must stay in Afghanistan

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
KABUL (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday French troops must stay in Afghanistan to fight terrorism, a day after insurgents killed 10 French troops, the biggest single loss of foreign forces in Afghan combat since 2001.

New rules make China's Bao world's tallest again

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Guinness World Records has returned the title of world's tallest man to China's Bao Xishun after Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk refused to be measured under new guidelines.

More Americans held as China steps up scrutiny

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
BEIJING (Reuters) - At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.

Iran satellite launch a failure, U.S. officials say

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's attempted satellite launch was a failure that fell far short of claimed successes, U.S. security officials said on Tuesday, but an analyst said the test still marked progress toward a potential weapon.

Quake hits southwest China, no reports of casualties

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake hit southwest China on Wednesday, knocking down houses and forcing around 1,200 people to evacuate from near the site of a devastating quake which killed at least 70,000 people in May, state media said.

Australia says WW2 war crime suspect can be extradited

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An alleged World War Two war criminal living in Australia was eligible for extradition to Hungary to face justice, an Australian court ruled on Wednesday.

Russia says troops to leave Georgia by Friday

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
TBILISI (Reuters) - The Kremlin said its forces would pull back from Georgia's heartland by Friday to positions set out under a French-brokered peace plan, amid mounting Western criticism about the slowness of the troop withdrawal.

Saudi's economic cities under pressure to deliver

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - An hour's drive north of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast, 8,000 workers toil under the relentless summer sun building what Saudi Arabia hopes will be the key to its social and economic future.

Venezuela seizes cement plants in socialist drive

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
GUANTA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan soldiers and workers seized foreign-owned cement plants on Tuesday, a show of strength as President Hugo Chavez advances a plan to make South America's top oil exporter a socialist state.

Rocket fire prompts Israel to shut Gaza border: radio

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:26
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Tuesday, prompting the Jewish state to order border crossings with the Hamas-ruled enclave closed temporarily, Israel Radio reported.