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Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.
The latest conflict simmering between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen accusing Israel of stealing traditional Middle Eastern dishes like hummus.
Protesters have occupied Thailand's seat of government for six weeks, demanding the resignation of governments they say are proxies for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Military leaders ousted Thaksin in a 2006 coup, accusing him of corruption. A look at recent events:
A committee of EU lawmakers approved an ambitious climate change plan Tuesday, resisting heavy pressure from lobbyists who sought to water down the bill because of the financial crisis.
A Serbian court has freed a former diplomat suspected of helping a student facing assault charges in the United States flee to Serbia, a court official said Tuesday.
To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia.
Iraq's prime minister welcomed the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest high-level visit by regional Arab dignitaries.
More than a hundred villagers in southern China have been poisoned by after drinking water apparently contaminated with arsenic, official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land after it entered its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan after it was determined the entry was accidental.
Efforts by the Russian government to prop up the country's troubled banking sector with fresh cash injections did little to lift stock markets a day after they suffered their worst-ever day of trading.
Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo master. Russian state-controlled media already have shown the powerful prime minister at the wheel of massive racing truck, shirtless on a fishing excursion, and tracking a tiger through the Siberian forest — just a few of the he-man presentations designed to boost his public image.
Russia's foreign minister says the country's arms sales to Venezuela are meant for defensive purposes.
The U.N. refugee agency says at least 5,000 people have fled violence in northeastern Congo and sought shelter in neighboring Sudan over the last two weeks.
Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.
One man has died in a car explosion in the Thai capital of Bangkok that occurred amid anti-government riots.
Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.
U.S. and Afghan troops clashed and called airstrikes on a group of insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 43 militants, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underlined on Tuesday that the world body is not going to investigate the murder of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but is considering only to appoint a fact-finding commission.
More than 100 notable people including authors, playwrights, politicians and religious leaders have called for Russia to "bring to justice" those responsible for the death of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - Joseph Stalin is probably turning in his grave as police from the European Union patrol the streets of his home town, Gori, Georgia.
When he tried to play down the enormous sums he has put in his pocket these past years, he sounded out of touch with the pain that Lehman's bankruptcy has caused thousands of employees and shareholders. More Articles
Iranian news reports claimed that Iran forced down a Western aircraft that accidentally entered its airspace, then allowed the plane to continue to Afghanistan after questioning its passengers.
New York - The world is reeling from the "earthquake on Wall Street" but the United Nations remains confident that governments will keep their promises to assist the earth's poorest, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
Nearly two-thirds of sub-Saharan African countries have improved their governance, according to a new index. The Ibrahim index, based on data from 2006, listed Mauritius as the best-governed out of 48 countries Liberia as the most improved.
By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed legislation on Tuesday that would change the city's term-limits law and allow him to seek four more years in office to help New York cope with the sweeping economic crisis. Bloomb...
Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.
"If something is not legal, you can't regulate it very effectively." – Prof. Robin Room, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Iranian news reports said on Tuesday that Iran forced a Western aircraft that accidentally entered its airspace to land, then allowed the plane to continue after questioning its passengers. Hmmm...
BAMIAN, Afghanistan — Far away from the Taliban insurgency, in this most peaceful corner of Afghanistan, a quiet revolution is gaining pace.
A man on a hijacked ship carrying tanks and heavy weapons said that the ransom had been reduced to $8 million. It was unclear if he was officially speaking for the pirates holding the vessel.
Monday marks the 35th anniversary of the fourth Arab-Israeli major conflict, the 1973 October War — or, as it is known in Israel, the Yom Kippur War.
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a narrow 3-point lead in the U.S. presidential race on Republican John McCain less than a month before the election, according to a...
AVA, Georgia (Reuters) - Russia will pull back on Wednesday from the southern edge of a buffer zone inside Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia, a senior Russian officer said, ahead of an October 10 deadline.
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