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LUPANE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Thabiso Dube isn’t helping his mother at home, the scrawny 8-year-old is working alongside her, doing odd jobs in exchange for food.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - All able states should join the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and redouble efforts to prevent further attacks by the militant group, the United Nations Security Council said on Friday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe told thousands of ruling party supporters on Thursday that she had no ambitions to be president, although analysts believe she remains a strong candidate to succeed her husband.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi met with speaker of parliament Shwe Mann for the second time in a week on Thursday to discuss reconciliation of the disparate political forces in the country in the wake of her historic election victory earlier this month.<br clear='all'/><img...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin has set up a new interdepartmental commission to combat terrorism financing, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/4b983c6c/sc/24/mf.gif'...

YANGON (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide election win might be bad news for Myanmar businessmen like construction magnate Khin Shwe, who lost his parliament seat and remains barred from doing business with U.S. nationals due to his ties to the former junta.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested 98 people connected to online gambling networks that handled $78 billion in bets, state media said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of moves to control illegal activity on the Internet.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Nicole was aged 17 and her mother was sent to prison for white collar crimes, she met a man on Facebook who offered to take care of her.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament passed more financial laws on Friday to keep the politically paralyzed country afloat, including a money laundering law.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/4b7cbded/sc/7/mf.gif'...

ROME (Reuters) - The governing Democratic Party (PD) has been sucked deeper into Italy's vortex of corruption scandals with the governor of one of its most populous regions coming under fire in a further embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sanctioned North Korea's ambassador to Myanmar as well as three other North Koreans it said had ties to a mining corporation.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/4b7b0ab0/sc/11/mf.gif'...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The outgoing United Nations envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon of Spain, on Thursday said he would seek a "full clarification" of a newspaper report that the United Arab Emirates was shipping arms to Libyan factions in violation of a U.N. arms embargo.<br...

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Leaders of the European Union formally launched an emergency trust fund for Africa on Thursday with an initial $2 billion to combat the poverty and conflicts driving migration to Europe.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at hundreds of people armed with sticks and shovels protesting the arrest of several youth leaders in Congo's second largest city of Lubumbashi on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Two Serbian Embassy staff members were kidnapped on Sunday in Libya's coastal city of Sabratha, the Foreign Ministry said.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/244157605157/u/49/f/654198/c/35217/s/4b557c7d/sc/7/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img...

MERIDA, Mexico (Reuters) - After standing by Communist Cuba in its years of international isolation, Mexico welcomed Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday as it seeks to turn Havana's thawing relations with the United States into a major business opportunity on the island.<br...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police searched offices of a business association close to President Tayyip Erdogan's ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gulen on Friday, media reports said, sustaining a crackdown on the Muslim cleric's supporters after Sunday's election.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday said it appointed Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu as interim prime minister to replace Victor Ponta who resigned the previous day after mass street protests.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

GAZA (Reuters) - Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey may hold a referendum on changing the constitution to create an executive presidential system and discussions on the issue will accelerate in the period ahead, President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...