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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea President Alpha Conde named mining executive Mamady Youla as prime minister on Saturday as part of a strategy to revive the West African nation's ailing economy, the government announced.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out two attacks in Sangin, the district in southern Afghanistan overrun by Taliban insurgents this week, officials said on Thursday, as the battle for the strategic province of Helmand continued.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel's ambassador to the United States used the embassy's annual holiday gift to make a political point this year, sending items made in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights to counter a divestiture movement aimed at Israel.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's conservatives and small reformist kingmaker party said on Wednesday they had agreed on businessman Tihomir Oreskovic as their candidate for prime minister after weeks of negotiations following an inconclusive election.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has ordered the arrest of former businessman and oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the RIA Novosti news agency.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Tuesday recalled its ambassador to the Czech Republic for consultations after remarks by the Czech president that his country should not adopt the euro unless Greece left the single currency, a foreign ministry official said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Reuters) - Women in Britain's armed forces should be allowed to serve in close combat roles by the end of 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247385785870/u/49/f/654198/c/35217/s/4c5c8433/sc/13/rc/1/rc.htm"...

TUNIS (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Tunisia has warned its citizens to avoid a major shopping mall in the capital Tunis on Sunday because of a reported threat of a potential militant attack there.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Insecurity in northern Mali has forced teachers to flee and schools to remain closed, leaving hundreds of thousands of children out of education three months into the academic year, the United Nations said on Friday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who leads forces allied to the country's recognized government, called for an end to an arms embargo to help fight Islamist militants after holding talks with the U.N. envoy on a peace agreement.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will discuss over dinner on Thursday British Prime Minister David Cameron's demands for reform of the bloc ahead of a referendum he plans to hold by the end of 2017 on his country's continued membership.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two young men of Palestinian descent are on trial in Germany for planning to bomb the Israeli embassy in Berlin or other Israeli targets, a criminal court spokesman said on Wednesday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy will send 450 troops near the front line with Islamic State militants in Iraq to protect workers conducting repairs to the Mosul hydro-electric dam, the country's biggest, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Wednesday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have killed all the insurgents involved in the attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul, Interior Minister spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Thursday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's center-left government pledged on Friday to continue with its plan to give free university tuition to the poorest students, despite a court ruling that aspects of its education reform bill were unconstitutional.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul on Friday, and said fighting was still going on at the scene.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

DOHA (Reuters) - Airstrikes carried out by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen have hit schools that are still in use and disrupted the education of thousands of children in the war-torn country, Amnesty International said on Friday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thobekile Mpofu was 15 when she got pregnant to a 41-year-old man who quickly accepted responsibility and married her, avoiding possible legal action for having sex with an underage girl.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - For years, websites linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have posted articles eulogizing Shi'ite fighters who die in Syria. But two men heralded last month for dying to defend a shrine near Damascus were different from most martyrs given such treatment in the past: they were...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission opened on Thursday an infringement case against Hungary over its recently adopted asylum law because it breaches European Union rules.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...