Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:25:49 -0500
Login to discuss
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political standing is 'perilous' because of divisions within his coalition over efforts to pursue peace with the Palestinians, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:34:39 -0500
Login to discuss
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media broadcasts of 'disturbing' images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security operations.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:45:11 -0500
Login to discuss
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber targeting security forces killed at least 11 people on Saturday, Pakistani police said, part of a renewed push against the state after one of the biggest security crackdowns in years.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:01:38 -0500
Login to discuss
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki held a wide lead on Saturday in early results from Baghdad, the major prize in a tight election race that Iraqis hope will bring stability after years of sectarian conflict.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:34:03 -0500
Login to discuss
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now '99.9 percent' certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:14:46 -0500
Login to discuss
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela on Saturday tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drugs flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of U.S. weapons parts to oil exporter Venezuela.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:12:31 -0500
Login to discuss
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police have released three of the seven people arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:30:10 -0500
Login to discuss
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican rallied around Pope Benedict Saturday, dismissing suggestions he had tried to cover up priestly child abuse in Germany.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:52:50 -0500
Login to discuss
BOSSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - French navy officers handed over 22 suspected Somali pirates to semi-autonomous Puntland's authorities and they will be arraigned in local courts, officials said on Saturday.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:06:12 -0500
Login to discuss
SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the early 20th-century killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.
