Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in New York

Sun, 20 May 2012 01:29:35 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries.

NATO leaders seek common path out of Afghanistan

Sun, 20 May 2012 01:56:49 -0400

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gather in Chicago on Sunday for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.

Strong quake hits North Italy, at least three dead

Sun, 20 May 2012 04:07:02 -0400

BONDENO, Italy (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early on Sunday, killing at least three people and causing serious damage to the area's cultural heritage.

World leaders back Greece, vow to combat financial turmoil

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:28:21 -0400

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis.

Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot

Sat, 19 May 2012 19:47:08 -0400

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot.

UK may keep troops in Afghanistan post-2014 to fight terrorism

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:18:11 -0400

CAMP ROUND MEADOW, Maryland (Reuters) - Britain may keep a small number of soldiers in Afghanistan to fight terrorism after 2014, when NATO forces are due to end combat operations, a senior British government official said on Saturday.

Impatient Thai red shirts want justice from PM Yingluck

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:29:05 -0400

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's "red shirts" took to the street this weekend to mark the anniversary of the army's bloody repression of their mass rally in Bangkok in 2010 amid growing signs of a rift with the government they helped elect last July.

Serbians vote for president under threat of protest

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:01:06 -0400

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic and rightist Tomislav Nikolic went head to head on Sunday in a tense run-off election for Serbian president and the right to lead the struggling nation into talks on joining the European Union.

Sri Lanka president orders release of jailed rival

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:44:06 -0400

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the early release from jail of his highest-profile political rival Sarath Fonseka, the president's spokesman said on Sunday, in an apparent bid to quell international criticism of the government's human rights record.

Youth protest former Mexican ruling party's rise

Sat, 19 May 2012 18:00:14 -0400

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators protested in Mexico City on Saturday against opposition presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto, who is far ahead in polls and poised to lead the party that ruled Mexico for much of the 20th century back to power.