The situation in the Thai capital is pretty normal except for the military-imposed curfew. Hotels have slashed room rates, it's cheaper to shop now and there are still more traffic jams than soldiers in the streets. THAILAND's police general Adul Saengsingkaew ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine raised the stakes in a dispute with Russia over gas supplies on Tuesday, saying Russian state-controlled company Gazprom GAZP.MM owed Kiev natural gas worth around $1 billion which it had "stolen" when Moscow annexed ...
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist gunmen opened fire on a market in a Nigerian village on Sunday, killing 20 people in the latest violence against civilians in the northeast of Africa's top oil producer. The assailants surrounded the village of ...
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks as part of the Conservative Party's European and Local Election campaign at HL Plastics in Denby, central England May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Darren Staples. LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David ...
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - The Ukrainian separatist region of Donetsk appealed to Moscow on Monday to consider its absorption into the Russian Federation to "restore historic justice". The statement, the day after a referendum on self-rule that rebels said ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's board signed off on a $17 billion (10.07 billion pounds) two-year aid program for Ukraine on Wednesday to help the former Soviet republic's economy recover after months of turmoil. The IMF aid ...
LUHANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists opened fire on a police station in the city of Luhansk on Tuesday after seizing the regional government headquarters, as Kiev's control over swathes of eastern Ukraine evaporates. The shooting, which ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptian activists demonstrated on Saturday against an anti-protest law, one month before a presidential election which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win. They marched to the presidential palace ...
Definitely not the definitive portrait of William Shakespeare: On the 450th anniversary of his birth, we're still no closer to uncovering the most enigmatic of Shakespearean characters, Shakespeare himself. Yo, Shakespeare, it's your birthday! For a man who ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho congratulated referee Mike Dean and the official's boss Mike Riley after a contentious penalty for Sunderland put a huge dent in the London club's Premier League title hopes on Saturday. Mourinho ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Australia are expected to sign an agreement specifying who would handle the wreckage and black box of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370, missing since March 8, if they are recovered. Department of Civil Aviation ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's northeast Borno state said on Thursday only 20 of up to 129 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist rebels were back with their parents, casting doubt on a military claim to have freed most of them. The armed forces said in ...
Perth (Australia) (AFP) - A mini-sub searching for missing Flight MH370 was again sweeping the Indian Ocean seabed Wednesday after aborting its first mission, officials said, as Malaysia vowed to reveal any "black box" data found. The unmanned submarine ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia told the West on Wednesday that four-way talks between representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the United States and European Union must focus on fostering dialogue among Ukrainians and not on bilateral relations among the ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League called on the United States on Wednesday to keep up efforts to salvage Middle East peace talks that are on the brink of collapse, blaming Israel for a crisis that has led Washington to evaluate its role in the negotiations.
A woman holds her ballot paper during voting in the parliamentary elections at polling station in Jakarta April 9, 2014. REUTERS/Beawiharta. JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's likely next leader may have a bumpier-than-expected route to the presidential ...
Smoke rises from chimneys of a thermal power plant near Shanghai March 26, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Barria. OSLO (Reuters) - World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global ...
BEIJING: Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has detected a “pulse signal†in the southern Indian Ocean, said Xinhua news agency. But the agency said it was yet to be established whether the signal ...
BEIJING: Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has detected a “pulse signal†in the southern Indian Ocean, said Xinhua news agency. But the agency said it was yet to be established whether the signal ...
YouTube logos displayed on a laptop screen partially covered with Turkey's national flag in this photo illustration taken in Ankara March 27, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas. ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday ruled that a blanket ban of social-media ...
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