Evening News Roundup from Swiss Info
Israel rejects U.N. appeal
By Luke BakerJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rejected a call by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and sea blockade...
U.S. sees Iraq army fit in 18 months
By Alastair MacdonaldBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers killed nearly 50 Iraqis on Wednesday, mostly in Baghdad, but the top U.S. commander said a...
Iran sanctions to be discussed
By Carol Giacomo and Sue PlemingWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major powers will begin discussing an Iran sanctions resolution at a meeting in...
Chavez vows solidarity with Syria
By Khaled Yacoub OweisDAMASCUS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged solidarity on Wednesday with Syria in its struggle...
Iran enriching uranium ahead of U.N. deadline: paper
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has begun enriching a new batch of uranium just days ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to suspend atomic fuel...
Bush's new campaign to defend Iraq war
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - For the third time in less than a year and two months before crucial U.S. elections, President George W....
Monitors blame Sri Lanka forces for aid massacre
By Peter AppsCOLOMBO (Reuters) - International ceasefire monitors blamed Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid workers...
Bomb in Turkish port city wounds woman
By Emma Ross-ThomasISTANBUL (Reuters) - A homemade bomb wounded a 20-year-old woman in Turkey's Mediterranean port city of Mersin on...
Hurricane John menaces Mexican resorts
By Chris AspinMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane John grew into a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday, threatening Mexican Pacific resorts...
Iran faces sanction deadline
By Mark HeinrichVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran faces the risk of sanctions after a U.N. nuclear watchdog report on Thursday that is likely to find...
Tourist seized in Niger says not prisoner
By Nick TattersallDAKAR (Reuters) - An Italian tourist seized by a Saharan rebel group on the border between Niger and Chad told Reuters on...
Red Cross worker killed in Darfur after abduction
GENEVA (Reuters) - A Sudanese national working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who was abducted in Sudan's Darfur...
Diminished Ernesto weakens further over Florida
By Tom BrownMIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ernesto weakened over Florida on Wednesday, coming ashore as a rainstorm instead of a dreaded...
Militants say behead two men for being U.S. "spies"
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan beheaded two men they accused of being U.S. spies and a boy who had...
Israel kills 7 Palestinians in Gaza Strip
By Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen and four civilians on Wednesday, pressing on with an...
Captor's colleague says he met "happy" Austrian girl
By Karin StroheckerVIENNA (Reuters) - A colleague of the man who held Natascha Kampusch captive for eight years in a cell under his garage...
Las Vegas ends late-night wedding-licence service
By Alexandria SageLAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Las Vegas bills itself as "the wedding capital of the world", but late-night revellers who decide...
Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz dies
By Summer SaidCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature, died on...
Bomb blast kills 24 in Baghdad market
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a central Baghdad market on Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding 35, police and Interior...
China pursuing "diplomacy" with Iran
BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran and oil-famished China agreed on favouring a diplomatic solution to international confrontation over Tehran's...
Chinese sex slave case dismissed by Japan court
TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese women who said they were forced to act as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two lost their bid for...
Israel kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza Strip
By Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen and two civilians on Wednesday, pressing on with an...
Kurdish rebels warn of "hell"
By Thomas GroveANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - A shadowy Kurdish rebel group threatened on Tuesday to turn Turkey into "hell" after a two-day...
China foils oilfield and power plant bombings
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have seized explosives and foiled attempts by separatists to blow up oilfields, power plants and highways...
New Orleans marks Katrina anniversary
By Peter Henderson and Matt DailyNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans residents marched through their battered city on Tuesday, marking the...
Polygamist sect leader held in Nevada
By Cathy ScottLAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Fugitive polygamist sect leader Warren Steed Jeffs, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted men, was arrested...
Bomb kills three at Iraqi army centre
HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday, killing at...
Hurricane John closes in on Mexico
By Chris AspinMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane John grew into a powerful cyclone off Mexico's Pacific Coast on Tuesday, threatening to...
Storm threat to Florida eases
By Tom BrownMIAMI (Reuters) - The threat Tropical Storm Ernesto posed to Florida diminished on Tuesday as it failed to gain strength over...
JonBenet killer still unknown
By Dan WhitcombBOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - Two weeks after the stunning arrest of John Mark Karr for the long-unsolved murder of 6-year-old...
Vote on U.N. troops for Darfur sought
By Opheera McDoom and Irwin ArieffKHARTOUM/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and Britain plan to push for a vote on a U.N....
Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to TV debate
By Parisa HafeziTEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged U.S. President George W. Bush to a televised debate...
Brazil's Lula pledges to help poor in second term
By Ricardo AmaralSAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised more government spending and social programs to...
Wolves return to eastern Germany
By Erik KirschbaumBERLIN (Reuters) - A century after they were wiped out by hunters and a burgeoning population, wolves have returned to...
Explosion kills 29 petrol scavengers in Iraq
By Imad al-KhozaieNEAR DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 29 people were killed when a blast ripped through scavengers siphoning petrol...
