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Yemen to seal Saleh's exit in one-candidate vote
Feb 19, 2012 10:08 EST
SANAA (Reuters) - After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule on Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as president.
Suicide car bomb kills 12 in Baghdad
Feb 19, 2012 05:40 EST
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 12 people and wounded 18 in an attack at a checkpoint near a police training academy in northeastern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said on Sunday.
Baghdad suicide car bomb kills at least 12
Feb 19, 2012 05:40 EST
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least 12 people in an attack at a checkpoint near a police training academy in northeastern Baghdad on Sunday, police and hospital sources said.
Egypt presidential vote to be early June: source
Feb 19, 2012 05:00 EST
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's first presidential election since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year will be held in the first week of June, an official at the judicial committee supervising the vote said.
Shi'ites targeted as Baghdad blasts kill 72
Dec 22, 2011 13:55 EST
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A wave of bombings killed at least 72 people in Baghdad Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic lines.
Baghdad blasts target Shi'ites, kill 63
Dec 22, 2011 10:31 EST
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines.
Italian budget in home stretch, unions on warpath
Dec 18, 2011 17:34 EST
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's austerity budget, vital to get Rome's accounts in order and help save the euro from collapse, enters its final stretch this week, with unions still mounting roadblocks to its path.
Analysis: Iraq resumes political strife in vacuum left by U.S.
Dec 18, 2011 16:00 EST
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The dust had barely settled from the last column of departing U.S. armoured vehicles when Iraq's rival Sunni and Shi'ite factions resumed the kind of political infighting that threatens a lurch back into turmoil.
Witness: Havel - Moral force at the end of a long staircase
Dec 18, 2011 14:55 EST
(Reuters)- To get to Vaclav Havel's airy apartment high in an early 20th century block overlooking the Vltava River in central Prague, which I did several times in the mid-1980s, it meant a long climb.
Witness:Vaclav Havel: Moral force at the end of a long staircase
Dec 18, 2011 13:55 EST
(Reuters)- To get to Vaclav Havel's airy apartment high in an early 20th century block overlooking the Vltava River in central Prague, which I did several times in the mid-1980s, it meant a long climb.
Protests spread in troubled Kazakh oil region
Dec 18, 2011 13:14 EST
AKTAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators confronted riot police on Sunday as Kazakhstan's biggest protests in decades spread to the capital of a western oil region where 15 people have been killed in clashes.
Italian budget in home stretch, unions on warpath
Dec 18, 2011 10:48 EST
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's austerity budget, vital for Rome's attempts to get its accounts in order and do its part to try to save the euro from collapse, enters its final stretch this week with unions still on the warpath.
Russian rig sinks, more than 50 feared dead
Dec 18, 2011 10:10 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while being towed through a storm, leaving more than 50 dead or missing in the icy Sea of Okhotsk.
Spain PM to outline tough reforms
Dec 18, 2011 08:54 EST
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's incoming centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will outline his first economic reforms and cost-cutting measures on Monday as he prepares to take the helm of a country battered by austerity, mass unemployment and the threat of recession.
Boat sinks off Indonesia, hundreds missing
Dec 17, 2011 16:41 EST
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A boat carrying 380 migrants, most of them from the Middle East, sank off the coast of east Java in Indonesia Saturday and hundreds of the passengers were missing, a senior emergency official said.
Troops beat Cairo protesters, clashes kill 10
Dec 17, 2011 15:17 EST
CAIRO (Reuters) - Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed 10 people and wounded hundreds, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
Troops beat Cairo protesters as clashes kill 10
Dec 17, 2011 15:15 EST
CAIRO (Reuters) - Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed 10 people and wounded hundreds, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
Troops beat Cairo protesters as clashes kill 9
Dec 17, 2011 15:03 EST
CAIRO (Reuters) - Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed nine people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
USTR's Kirk says no trade war but troubled by China
Dec 17, 2011 15:02 EST
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said on Saturday the United States is not in a trade war with China, but he is troubled by China's tendency to retaliate when other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) launch trade cases against it.
USTR's Kirk says no trade war but troubled
Dec 17, 2011 14:16 EST
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said on Saturday the United States is not in a trade war with China, but he is troubled by China's tendency to retaliate when other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) launch trade cases against it.
