| Koreas near deal on family reunions at rare talks
August 27, 2009 at 12:12 am
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| SEOUL (Reuters) - The rival Koreas neared a deal to resume reunions of families separated by the Korean War at a rare meeting on Wednesday that follows conciliatory moves made by the North after it was hit by sanctions, reports said. |
| Japan opposition may win 2/3 majority: poll
August 26, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's main opposition Democratic Party looks set to win an election on Sunday by a huge margin and could even secure a two-thirds majority in parliament's powerful lower house, a newspaper survey showed on Thursday. |
| Taiwan, challenging China, to let Dalai Lama visit
August 26, 2009 at 10:13 pm
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| TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, which turned away the Dalai Lama last year on fears of upsetting China, has approved a visit by the Tibetan spiritual leader next week to comfort victims of a deadly typhoon, the government said on Thursday. |
| Argentine government criticizes farmers' strike call
August 26, 2009 at 10:10 pm
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| BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's cabinet chief criticized farm leaders on Wednesday for calling a new strike that raised concerns over exports and said the government will not back down on the partial veto of a drought-aid law. |
| Colombia says Chavez meddling, protests to OAS
August 26, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia on Wednesday filed a formal complaint against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with the Organization of American States, accusing the leftist leader of meddling in its domestic affairs. |
| Iran's Khamenei says protests planned before vote
August 26, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday he did not believe the leaders of opposition protests that erupted after the country's June presidential vote were agents of foreigners. |
| Argentine government criticizes farmers' strike call
August 26, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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| BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's cabinet chief criticized farm leaders on Wednesday for calling a new strike that raised concerns over exports and said the government will not back down on the partial veto of a drought-aid law. |
| Colombia says Chavez meddling, protests to OAS
August 26, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia on Wednesday filed a formal complaint against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with the Organization of American States, accusing the leftist leader of meddling in its domestic affairs. |
| U.N. chief says welcomes criticism after Norway memo
August 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he welcomed criticism, responding to a scathing internal memo by a Norwegian diplomat that was leaked to a newspaper last week. |
| U.N. Liberia peacekeeper suspected of abuse found dead
August 26, 2009 at 3:21 pm
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| MONROVIA (Reuters) - An American United Nations peacekeeper under investigation for sexual exploitation and abuse of minors in Liberia has been found dead in his house in the West African country, the U.N. said on Wednesday. |
| Guatemala drug trade leaves trail of local addicts
August 26, 2009 at 2:16 pm
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| GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Drug gangs in Guatemala are paying runners and hitmen with cocaine, driving a growing local market and leaving a trail of home-grown addicts in a country already wracked with poverty and crime gangs. |
| Abbas to call election if talks with Hamas fail
August 26, 2009 at 10:35 am
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| RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he would press ahead with a January parliamentary and presidential election opposed by the rival Hamas movement if reconciliation efforts failed. |
| Iraqi Shi'ite party leader dies, successor eyed
August 26, 2009 at 10:32 am
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite Muslim political groups and most important religious dynasties died on Wednesday, adding to political uncertainty in a violent run-up to an election next January. |
| Madagsacar leaders still deadlocked over top job
August 26, 2009 at 10:28 am
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| MAPUTO (Reuters) - Talks to end months of political instability in Madagascar were deadlocked Wednesday as the island's leaders bickered over who would head a transitional government mandated with restoring constitutional order. |
| Iran's Khatami says trial confessions invalid
August 26, 2009 at 10:14 am
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Former President Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday trial confessions by moderates accused of fomenting post-election unrest were made under "extraordinary conditions" and were invalid, an Iranian news agency reported. |
| Russia eyes landmark purchase of French assault ship
August 26, 2009 at 9:55 am
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| ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Russia plans to buy an advanced warship from France this year, a top general said on Wednesday, in what would be the country's first major foreign military purchase and a blow to domestic arms producers. |
| Forensic experts unearth 60 Bosnian war victims
August 26, 2009 at 9:33 am
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| SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian forensic experts said on Wednesday they had found the remains of at least 60 Muslims and Croats in a ravine where around 200 people were killed by Bosnian Serb forces early in the 1992-95 war. |
| Pakistani forces launch air attack on Taliban
August 26, 2009 at 6:02 am
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| WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships stepped up attacks on Taliban positions in the South Waziristan region on Wednesday, a day after militants confirmed that their leader was dead and announced his successor. |
| Afghan vote too close to call as results trickle in
August 26, 2009 at 5:58 am
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| KABUL (Reuters) - More results were expected to trickle out of Afghanistan's election counting house on Wednesday as officials raised the death toll from a truck bombing that highlighted the problems the eventual winner will face. |
| Recognition of Abkhazia, Ossetia irreversible: Medvedev
August 26, 2009 at 5:44 am
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| ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Russia will never reverse its decision to recognize the independence from Georgia of the rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday, the first anniversary of the decision. |
| IAEA to report Iran atom slowdown ahead of talks
August 26, 2009 at 5:41 am
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| VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors are set to report that Iran has slowed the expansion of its disputed nuclear program and is cooperating more with them just as major powers prepare to discuss harsh sanctions against Tehran. |
| French hostage escapes from rebels in Somalia
August 26, 2009 at 5:12 am
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| MOGADISHU (Reuters) - One of two French security advisers kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month escaped Wednesday after killing three of his captors and fled to the presidential palace in Mogadishu, police said. |
| Japan voters say ready to give chance to opposition
August 26, 2009 at 5:01 am
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| HIGASHIHIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - With Japan's election just days away, voters in this conservative countryside are pondering what was once unthinkable -- rejecting the Liberal Democratic Party that has ruled for most of the past 54 years. |
| Israel's Netanyahu hopes to resume Palestinian talks
August 26, 2009 at 4:40 am
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday his government was making progress toward reopening talks with the Palestinians and hoped to be able to do so shortly. |
| Russian military says to check Arctic Sea cargo
August 26, 2009 at 4:39 am
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| ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Russia's top general said on Wednesday the military would search the Arctic Sea merchant ship for a possible secret cargo when it returns to Russia from a maritime odyssey that has made headlines around the world. |
| Mugabe health report "rubbish": Zimbabwe officials
August 26, 2009 at 3:44 am
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| HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean officials dismissed a South African newspaper report that President Robert Mugabe was ill on Wednesday as rubbish and the product of "sick and evil minds." |
| Zimbabwe's Mugabe treated in Dubai hospital: paper
August 26, 2009 at 1:50 am
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| JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has received treatment in a Dubai hospital after falling unwell, a South African newspaper reported on Wednesday. |
| North, South Korea hold rare talks on split families
August 26, 2009 at 1:18 am
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| SEOUL (Reuters) - Red Cross officials from North and South Korea begin three days of talks on Wednesday in a rare contact between the rivals to discuss the plight of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. | |
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