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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian business leaders may have ideological differences with struggling leftist President Dilma Rousseff, but calls for her impeachment make many of them nervous, effectively giving her support from an unexpected quarter.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BHUBANESHWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India is embarking on a national campaign to help millions of indigenous people protect their forest land and resources using a seven-year-old landmark law that has gone largely ignored, the country's tribal affairs minister said on Monday.<br...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian air force bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where close to 100 people were killed on Sunday in an air strike on a market, a monitoring group reported.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will ask three social media and Internet companies to curb content in the interest of public safety, the communications minister said on Monday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered across Brazil on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, whom they blame for a vast corruption scandal and the economy's worst slump in a quarter century.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to shed an image that he governs for big business on Saturday, vowing to help the poor in an annual speech aimed at bolstering popularity rather than tackling setbacks to his economic reform plans.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Work on a landmark Chinese-backed waterfront development in Colombo could resume after next Monday's general election in Sri Lanka, even if Beijing's preferred candidate for prime minister, ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is defeated.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Cuba on Friday to raise the U.S. flag at the recently restored American embassy in Havana, another symbolic step in the thawing of relations between the two Cold War-era foes.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HAVANA (Reuters) - The seven-story building on Havana's famed "Malecon" seafront has for decades been a flashpoint in the Cold War's most enduring rivalry.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/48f4963e/sc/7/mf.gif' border='0'/><div...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held areas near Damascus killed at least 31 people on Wednesday, and insurgents bombarded the capital with rockets that killed at least 13 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has partially lifted a ban on big game hunting around Hwange National Park, which was imposed this month after an international outcry over the killing of Cecil the lion by a U.S. dentist which sparked international outrage.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

(Reuters) - Zimbabwe has lifted a ban on big game hunting outside a national park 10 days after imposing the moratorium following the illegal killing of the country's most prized lion, NBC News in the United States reported on Monday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Moscow next week, Tass news agency reported the Iranian embassy as saying on Monday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/48dd9627/sc/11/mf.gif'...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors' plan to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador's embassy in London has stalled as Ecuador has demanded Sweden give him asylum as a condition of the meeting, a Swedish official said on Friday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

HWANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday postponed to Sept. 28 the trial of a local hunter accused of failing to stop American dentist Walter Palmer illegally killing the country's most prized lion last month.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to drop politically unpopular clauses from a pro-business land bill, a move that will fuel worries among investors that the slow pace of economic reforms is hurting long-term growth prospects.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Tuesday lambasted Catalan plans to test support for independence by holding a regional election, saying he would not allow anyone to break up Spain or to derail an economic recovery.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - The brother of Cecil, the lion killed in Zimbabwe by an American hunter last month, is not dead, a researcher monitoring the pride told Reuters, contradicting media reports that Jericho had been killed.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - After the killing of Zimbabwe's most famous lion by an American tourist, a second lion has been poached by a foreign visitor, a source at the national parks agency told Reuters on Saturday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

HARARE (Reuters) - The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...