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Grenade blast wounds 7 suspected rebels in Sri Lanka prison

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
COLOMBO (Reuters) -- A hand grenade blast inside a prison in eastern Sri Lanka wounded seven prisoners, most of them suspected of being allied with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, police said.

Thai protesters attack Bangkok police HQ

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters trying to overthrow Thailand's government attacked Bangkok's police headquarters on Friday as demonstrations against Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej spread from the capital, disrupting air and rail services.

Flash floods kill 11 in northern Vietnam

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
HANOI (Reuters) - Eleven people, three of them children, have been killed by flash floods and landslides that struck a mountainous province in northern Vietnam this week, the government said on Friday.

Eleven headless bodies found near Mexican graveyard

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
MERIDA, Mexico (Reuters) - Eleven beheaded bodies were dumped close to a graveyard outside a sleepy southern city on Thursday in the latest shocking crime in Mexico's vicious drug war.

Argentine "dirty war" generals get life in prison

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine court sentenced two former generals to life in prison on Thursday over the disappearance of a provincial senator during the 1976-1983 "dirty war" dictatorship.

Angola elections bring change to farm sector

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
VALE DO CAVACO, Angola (Reuters) - For the past 30 years, Jose Vilomba, 47, has walked barefoot on one of Africa's most fertile valleys using his hands and a shovel to plant vegetables to feed his family.

Karadzic due for plea hearing at Hague tribunal

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Georgian parliament urges cutting ties with Moscow

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions.

Mexico's top court upholds abortion law

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a law allowing abortion in the capital, handing a victory to leftist city lawmakers over conservative President Felipe Calderon's government and the Catholic Church.

U.S. forces arrest senior Iraqi official

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq's government of members of Saddam Hussein's party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.

Three charged in Britain over Brown death threats

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
LONDON (Reuters) - British police charged three men with terrorism offences on Thursday over threats to kill Prime Minister Gordon Brown posted on a militant Islamic website.

Italian museum defies pope over crucified frog

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.

Heavy fighting threatens East Congo peace deal

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Government forces fought Tutsi rebels on Thursday in the fiercest clashes for months in eastern Congo, threatening a struggling peace process, the defence minister said on Thursday.

Church trashed as India religious riots spread

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Hindu mobs ransacked a church and clashed with Christian villagers in eastern India on Thursday, police said, as Italy said it would summon India's ambassador to demand "incisive action" to prevent more attacks.

Dutch say Pisa no longer Europe's most leaning tower

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
BEDUM, Netherlands (Reuters) - The Tower of Pisa is being challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning tower.

WHO study backs universal health care

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
GENEVA (Reuters) - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care.

Russia long-range missile test a success

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday.

Hacker loses appeal and faces extradition to U.S.

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert accused by the United States of "the biggest military hack of all time" lost an appeal on Thursday and could be extradited within weeks.

U.S. troops to hand back Iraq's Anbar province

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops will on Sept. 1 hand over control of Iraq's Anbar province, once the heart of a bloody Sunni Arab insurgency, reflecting a dramatic drop in violence across the country, an Iraqi official said on Thursday.

Don't take "holy" water onto pope plane

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:57
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has warned journalists who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on the papal plane or it may be confiscated.