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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police said on Tuesday they had arrested an editor and two reporters from a state-owned newspaper for publishing falsehoods after reporting that a police commissioner and junior officer were involved in a spate of elephant killings.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iranian-American businessman was arrested by Iranian security forces two weeks while he was visiting relatives in Tehran from his home base in Dubai, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday condemned a U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for the 24th year in a resolution that Washington voted against despite warming ties and a push by President Barack Obama to remove the economic restrictions.<br clear='all'/><img...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel flies to China on Wednesday to shore up German business interests challenged by Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal and the flurry of deals clinched during President Xi Jinping's visit to Britain last week.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Reuters) - Stung by criticism in Britain of his country's human rights record, Saudi Arabia's ambassador in London threatened "potentially serious repercussions" for the two countries' relationship unless a more respectful discourse developed.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - Robert Mugabe's anti-Western rhetoric has been conspicuous by its absence of late, a sign the 91-year-old leader has mellowed or realized that Zimbabwe may need financial help.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Socialist Party legislators on Wednesday asked state prosecutors to investigate Venezuela's billionaire businessman Lorenzo Mendoza and Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann for alleged crimes including "treason."<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to the United States is Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki Al Saud, a British-educated former head of the kingdom's investment authority and of a commission on industrial cities, state media reported on Wednesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

MONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, who came from behind to trounce his Conservative rivals and snatch a majority mandate, now has to deliver on pledges from tackling climate change to legalizing marijuana.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

CHISINAU (Reuters) - Phone conversations posted online on Tuesday purported to show former Moldovan prime minister Vlad Filat asking for bribes from a local businessman, who has been accused along with Filat of involvement in the theft of $1 billion from three banks.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled a new strategy on Monday to combat extremism, saying the battle was "perhaps the "defining one of this century", but his proposals were condemned by Muslims as demonizing their communities and set to fail.<br clear='all'/><img...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's president on Sunday urged legal action against billionaire businessman Lorenzo Mendoza over a phone call which airs the possibility of an international bailout for the OPEC nation's ailing economy.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta will send soldiers to rural areas to educate villagers on topics from careers to farming, a junta spokesman said on Friday, but critics say the scheme is a thinly veiled attempt to re-educate dissenters.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HWANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion said on Thursday his family and business had been destroyed amid the outcry that followed the lion's death and that charges against him should be dropped.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia has asked Austria and Germany to explain why they did not act on an international arrest warrant and detain the head of Hungarian energy firm MOL when he was on their territory, the interior minister said on Thursday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak faces the toughest test of his political career so far when parliament reconvenes next week, with the leader facing questions from a growing number of establishment figures about his alleged role in a graft scandal at the state...

GUIYANG, China (Reuters) - Three decades ago, Chinese cities began turning rural land into industrial parks to attract foreign investors. Today, a new kind of project is blooming in China's countryside: the vocational education park.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak faces the toughest test of his political career so far when parliament reconvenes next week, with the leader facing questions from a growing number of establishment figures about his alleged role in a graft scandal at the state...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in central China on Tuesday jailed a former senior Chinese energy executive for 20 years on corruption charges, the latest official to fall in a sweeping anti-graft campaign linked to allies of disgraced security chief Zhou Yongkang.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...