Reuters: World News

Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:25:56 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.

Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:53:57 -0500

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on three nearby Christian villages.

UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:39:19 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbors must support such an agreement.

Chavez trusts God and nature in power crisis

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:00 -0500

CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez is confident that God and nature will pull Venezuela out of a power crisis battering both the economy and his popularity.

Bomber's death fresh blow to Indonesia militants

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:51:46 -0500

CANBERRA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country.

Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:32:54 -0500

KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout.

Gunmen kill 6 in Western aid agency raid in Pakistan

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:42:59 -0500

OGHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a U.S.-based, Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up the building.

Libya accepts U.S. apology over diplomatic row

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:08:54 -0500

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya signaled the end of a diplomatic row with the United States Wednesday, saying it accepted an apology for acerbic comments made by a U.S. official and wanted to deepen relations in all areas.

Head of Egypt's al-Azhar dies in Saudi Arabia: report

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:27:48 -0500

DUBAI (Reuters) - Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday, quoting its correspondent. Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational institutions across Egypt.

Dalai Lama risks Chinese ire to back Uighurs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:04:32 -0500

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, voiced his support on Wednesday for an ethnic minority in China's troubled Xinjiang province, risking further worsening his fraught relations with Beijing.