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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Two shells were fired at Russia's embassy in Damascus on Tuesday during a demonstration in support of Moscow, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to the building.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Less than half of the world's countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in school with not one sub-Saharan African nation achieving equality, according to a United Nations report released on Monday to mark International Day of the Girl Child.<br...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Germany signed a deal on Monday to fast-track business approvals, an arrangement to make it easier for German companies to operate in Asia's third largest economy that was announced as Chancellor Angela Merkel visited New Delhi.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Addressing concerns that a landmark nuclear deal reached this year could boost Iran's military power, the Obama administration reassured critics that it would maintain and enforce its remaining tough sanctions against the country.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro complained on Sunday that U.S. leader Barack Obama's government was delaying its consent for Caracas' proposed new ambassador in Washington.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The leader of Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels ordered a halt to combat training of its fighters on Thursday, a move President Juan Manuel Santos said would help the push toward a complete ceasefire as the two sides negotiate peace.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Bahrain said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Iran, a day after it said security forces had discovered a large bomb-making factory and arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has withdrawn a number of its personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing following two massive cyber attacks involving U.S. government employee records, according to the Washington Post.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes struck 24 targets in a bombardment of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in the southeastern province of Hakkari late on Tuesday, the military said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - An Indian court sentenced five men to death and jailed seven for life on Wednesday for planning bomb blasts that ripped through Mumbai commuter trains in 2006, killing more than 180 people and wounding hundreds.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

LIMA (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and 13 wounded in clashes between police and protesters demanding that MMG Ltd revise part of its $7.4 billion Las Bambas copper project and hire more locals, authorities said on Monday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan businessman accused of participating in a customs fraud that brought down the country's president told a court on Monday that half the bribes in the scam were paid to the former leader and his ex vice president.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States can normalize ties only after Washington ends its trade embargo and returns the Guantanamo U.S. naval base to Cuban control, President Raul Castro told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States can normalize ties only after Washington ends its trade embargo and returns the Guantanamo U.S. naval base to Cuban control, President Raul Castro told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba, his former lawyer and three other allies go on trial at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday charged with corrupting witnesses and interfering with the administration of justice.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - A court on Monday postponed for the second time the trial of hunter Theo Bronkhorst, who is linked to the illegal killing of Zimbabwe's most prized lion in July, after his lawyers requested that his indictment be quashed.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Cuba's President Raul Castro, speaking at the United Nations for the first time, on Saturday hailed renewed diplomatic ties with the United States as "major progress" but slammed a U.S. trade embargo as the top obstacle to Cuba's economic development.<br...

MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish ambassador to Moscow on Friday to protest after graves of Soviet soldiers were vandalized in the Polish village of Milejczyce.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Malaysia warned American citizens on Thursday to avoid a popular tourist street in the capital Kuala Lumpur because of "credible threat information regarding a potential terrorist act".<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has cemented his status as heir apparent to 91-year-old Robert Mugabe after getting close allies appointed to important cabinet posts and securing the tasks of reforming the economy and legal system.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...