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Slovenia mandates new PM to halt dramatic decline By Zoran Radosavljevic LJUBLJANA | Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:24pm EST (Reuters) - Slovenia dismissed its conservative-led government on Wednesday and offered a center-left finance expert the task of halting the Alpine country's fall from...

Iran appears to advance in construction of Arak nuclear plant By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA | Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:58am EST (Reuters) - Iran appears to be advancing in its construction of a research reactor Western experts say could offer the Islamic state a second way of producing material for a...

British PM Cameron on India trade trip amid graft scandal By Andrew Osborn LONDON | Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:03pm EST (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives in India on Monday to try to win new investment in the face of fierce global competition as a scandal engulfs an...

Canadian minister quits over inappropriate lobbying By David Ljunggren OTTAWA | Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:01pm EST (Reuters) - Canadian Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan resigned unexpectedly on Friday after admitting he had inappropriately written a letter to a tax court on behalf of a...

Frustrated Turkey still wants EU entry, but maybe not euro By Mohammed Abbas LONDON | Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:14pm EST (Reuters) - Turkey is committed to joining the European Union despite mounting frustration over decades of talks on the issue, but has little appetite for adopting the euro...

Accused Arizona killer details sex life with slain lover TIM GAYNOR, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 09:13 PM EST | UPDATED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 09:22 PM EST Jodi Arias. (Mesa Police Dept. Handout) A woman charged in Arizona with capital murder for stabbing and...

Brazil nightclub fire kills more than 200: police SAO PAULO | Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:47am EST (Reuters) - At least 200 people were killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil on Sunday after a band's pyrotechnics show set the establishment ablaze, local officials said. Bodies were still being...

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Suicide Bomber Wanted Salary, Officials Say It Was Extortion by Peter Barefoot on Monday, January 21, 2013 From Sohu: Man Demanding Salary Detonates Explosive Killing 1 Wounding 7, Officials Claim It Was Extortion A man asking...

Cops bust mini drug-making lab in village The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013 GEORGE TOWN - Police raided a village house which had been turned into a drug processing laboratory and seized several types of drugs with a street value of RM500,000 (S$203,000). Seven people...

Thousands married on 2013.1.4, a date homophonic as “love you for a lifetime” in Chinese Jacky Huang | January 11th, 2013 Jan 4th, the couples waiting in the Beijing Haidian District marriage registration office The first working day of 2013, the first summit of registration for marriage has...

Sudanese police block protest at human rights commission KHARTOUM | Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:58pm EST (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces on Sunday blocked activists trying to deliver a petition criticizing the government to the country's human rights commission, drawing a rare rebuke from the...

U.S. suspends embassy operations in rebel-hit Central African Republic WASHINGTON | Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:36pm EST (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was suspending operations at its embassy in the Central African Republic as rebels appeared poised to move on the capital of the...

Gunmen snatch three Westerners in Yemen capital SANAA | Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:01pm EST (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted a Finnish couple and a Austrian man in the centre of Sanaa on Friday, a security official told Reuters, just two days after a major overhaul of the armed forces in a drive to bring...

Nepal soldiers hunt for killer elephant KATHMANDU | Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:58pm EST (Reuters) - Soldiers in Nepal are on the hunt for a wild elephant after it strayed into villages in the southern part of the Himalayan nation and killed four people in three months, officials said on Monday. The...

Venezuela furious at Obama's comments on ailing Chavez By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS | Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:29pm EST (Reuters) - Venezuela's government reacted with fury on Friday to U.S. President Barack Obama's criticism of ailing Hugo Chavez's "authoritarian" government at a...

Yemen army official killed in ambush, army battles tribesmen SANAA/ADEN | Sat Dec 8, 2012 9:30am EST (Reuters) - A senior Yemeni army official was killed on Saturday in an ambush by suspected al Qaeda members, while the army battled tribesmen who blew up the country's main oil export...

Chronology: Hugo Chavez's battle for health Fri Dec 7, 2012 2:05pm EST (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned from Cuba on Friday after medical treatment in a first public appearance for three weeks that quashed rumors he may have been at death's door. Following is a...

Rare tornado kills three in New Zealand's biggest city WELLINGTON | Wed Dec 5, 2012 11:21pm EST (Reuters) - Three people were killed and several injured after an unusual storm, described by witnesses as a "mini tornado", hit New Zealand's largest city of Auckland on Thursday, toppling trees...

Thousands rally behind Mursi Opposition protests turn violent in Alexandria, Nile Delta ALISTAIR LYON AND TAMIM ELYAN, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2012 04:50 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2012 09:57 AM EST Protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo November...