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...
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...
Annan to urge lift of Lebanon blockade
By Dean YatesJERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will urge Israel to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon and...
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...
Donors urge Somalia power-sharing deal
By Simon JohnsonSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - International donors urged Somalia's interim government and Islamists on Tuesday to strike a...
Data show one in eight Americans in poverty
By Joanne MorrisonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the world's biggest economy, one in eight Americans and almost one in four blacks lived in...
Ambush and bombs kill 20 in rising Afghan violence
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan killed 18 suspected Taliban, the military said on Tuesday, while two Afghans died in a...
Italian hostage in Nigeria has been freed -Ansa
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian oil worker kidnapped last week in Nigeria has been freed, a spokeswoman for Italy's foreign ministry said on...
S.Africa passes controversial mercenaries bill
By Gordon BellCAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa passed an anti-mercenaries law on Tuesday that could bar thousands of its nationals from...
Israel kills 5 Palestinians, including 3 militants
By Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed five Palestinians and wounded a dozen in attacks on militants in the Gaza Strip...
Sri Lanka army battles rebels
By Peter AppsCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops battled Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday in a new offensive, jeopardising the evacuation of...
Blast kills 3 as violence erupts in Pakistan
By Gul YousafzaiQUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Security forces and gunmen clashed in the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Tuesday...
Climate change a threat to development: World Bank
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Climate change may be one of the biggest threats to attempts to cutting poverty in the world's most deprived nations...
Case against JonBenet suspect collapses
By Dan WhitcombBOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - John Mark Karr, the schoolteacher who made worldwide headlines by confessing to one of America's...
New Orleans a tale of two cities
By Peter HendersonNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Alabama native Sarah Jane Keith, 30, stopped on a desolate street of the New Orleans Lower Ninth...
Uganda military starts truce with LRA rebels
By Daniel WallisKAMPALA (Reuters) - A truce between the Ugandan army and northern guerrillas notorious for their savagery and use of child...
Prosecutor seeks death penalty in Libya HIV case
By Salah SarrarTRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan prosecutor demanded the death penalty on Tuesday for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian...
Iraqis weigh new burden - fighting flab
By Aseel KamiBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Starved of entertainment in their violence-racked city, many Baghdad residents are turning to food as one...
Iran's president challenges Bush to TV debate
By Edmund BlairTEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the...
Iran's president says wants TV debate with Bush
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed holding a live television debate with U.S. President George W....
Unlit runway may have confused Kentucky pilots
By Steve RobrahnLEXINGTON, Kentucky (Reuters) - The co-pilot who was at the controls of the Comair commuter jet that crashed off the wrong...
Iran's president says wants TV debate with Bush
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed holding a live television debate with U.S. President George W....
Israeli air strike on Gaza gunmen wounds 8
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel's air force struck a group of Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding at least eight people...
Suicide bomber targets NATO convoy in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - At least one Afghan civilian was killed in a suicide bomb attack on a NATO convoy in the country's volatile south on...
Police find 10 bodies in Baghdad school yard
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police found on Tuesday the bodies of 10 men, handcuffed and blindfolded, dumped in the yard of a school in western...
Venezuela's Chavez says to leave for Syria
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday he would leave for Syria later in the day in a trip likely to...
Sudan ignores pressure over U.N. troops
By Opheera McDoomKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan ignored U.S. pressure to accept U.N. troops in Darfur, snubbing Washington's top diplomat on...
Israeli troops kill two W.Bank gunmen
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli special forces killed two Palestinian gunmen during a clash in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday,...
