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Ally of Kosovo PM among five arrested for war crimes (23 May 07:14 pm)

PRISTINA (Reuters) - A close wartime ally of Kosovo\'s prime minister was among five people arrested by European Union police on Thursday on suspicion of war crimes during a 1998-99 insurgency against

Umpire Asad Rauf withdrawn from Champions Trophy (23 May 07:04 pm)

REUTERS - Elite panel umpire Asad Rauf was withdrawn from next month\'s Champions Trophy on Thursday following media reports he was under investigation by Mumbai Police.

Crisis looms over Delhi’s midnight streets (23 May 07:02 pm)

May 23 - As night fell across India’s burgeoning capital, tens of thousands of families, migrants and refugees make their beds on pavements stained with chewing tobacco and urine. This glimpse of

Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets (23 May 06:57 pm)

MILAN (Reuters) - The prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi\'s sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of threats, including one with two bullets, Milan\'s chief prosecutor

Cannes documentary makers focus on Jackie Stewart, Pele and Ali (23 May 06:55 pm)

CANNES (Reuters) - Three years after \"Senna\", the hit film biography of the late Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, sporting documentaries about Jackie Stewart, Muhammad Ali and Pele are competing

France wants Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list by end-June (23 May 06:55 pm)

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it hoped an initiative could be agreed by the end of June to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the EU\'s list of terrorist organisations on grounds the group

Bollywood auctions role for funds to curb crimes against women (23 May 06:53 pm)

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bollywood producer Pooja Bhatt is auctioning off a role in one of her next Hindi-language films to help raise money to reduce rising cases of violence against

Islamists kill 20 in suicide attacks in Niger (23 May 06:51 pm)

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist suicide bombers struck a barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens in attacks that showed armed

Pope, Salvador president, discuss beatification of slain archbishop (23 May 06:50 pm)

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in

London attackers British, of Nigerian origin - source (23 May 06:20 pm)

LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source

Pussy Riot member refused parole by Russian court (23 May 06:05 pm)

BEREZNIKI, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court refused on Thursday to grant parole to a member of Pussy Riot serving a two-year prison sentence for protesting in Moscow\'s main cathedral with a \"punk

N.Korea says willing to take China's advice to start talks (23 May 05:56 pm)

BEIJING (Reuters) - An envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told a senior Chinese leader on Thursday that North Korea is willing to take China\'s advice to start talks to resolve tension on the

Kerry meets Israelis, Palestinians in bid to revive talks (23 May 05:55 pm)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday and acknowledged there was considerable scepticism that the two sides

Subbarao overrules panel view on rate action in May (23 May 05:53 pm)

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao went against the suggestion of a majority of external members of the central bank\'s monetary policy committee that recommended

Assad foe tells Syrian leader to cede power to officials (23 May 05:45 pm)

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian opposition leader urged President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to hand power to his deputy or his prime minister and then go abroad with 500 members of his entourage,

Saudi Arabia confirms another death from SARS-like virus (23 May 05:41 pm)

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the SARS-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim region, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 17.

Rupee pulls off 8-1/2 month lows as exporters sell (23 May 05:31 pm)

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee recovered from a more than 8-1/2 month low hit earlier on Thursday, as exporters took advantage of a spike in the dollar to sell the greenback and on fears the central

At least 18 soldiers, four Islamists killed in Niger - sources (23 May 05:17 pm)

NIAMEY (Reuters) - At least 18 soldiers and four suspected Islamists were killed in a fierce gunbattle following a dawn car bomb attack at a barracks in the northern Niger town of Agadez, military

Top Chinese leader urges N.Korea envoy to work toward denuclearisation (23 May 05:10 pm)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Liu Yunshan, the Chinese Communist Party\'s fifth-ranked leader, told a North Korean envoy on Thursday that China hopes all parties would work toward denuclearisation and called on

Hands soaked in blood, London knifeman declares his creed on video (23 May 05:07 pm)

LONDON (Reuters) - A young man with bloodied hands holds a knife and a meat cleaver soaked in blood as he faces the camera to say he has just killed a soldier on a London street in retaliation for the

London attacker was British-born of Nigerian descent - source (23 May 04:56 pm)

LONDON (Reuters) - One of the attackers who hacked a soldier to death in London was British-born and of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said.

Taliban claim bomb in southwest Pakistan that kills 13 (23 May 04:55 pm)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb that killed 11 security personnel and two civilians in the southwestern city of Quetta.

London attacker British, of Nigerian origin - source (23 May 04:55 pm)

LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with

Iran seeks to speed up nuclear activity - IAEA (23 May 04:28 pm)

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is trying to accelerate its uranium enrichment programme, a U.N. nuclear report showed, but experts said it was unclear when Tehran\'s new machines could start operating and how

London attacker was British-born of Nigerian descent-source (23 May 03:56 pm)

LONDON (Reuters) - One of the attackers who hacked a soldier to death in London was British-born and of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said.