(Reuters) – The leaders of France and Germany flew out of Moscow in the dead of night after five hours of talks with Vladimir Putin on Friday, with little to announce to end fighting in Ukraine beyond a promise to keep talking.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – NBC launched an internal probe yesterday into top-rated “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams’ debunked claim that he was aboard a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) during the U.S.
MUNICH, (Reuters) – Concerned Gulf Arab nations called on the international community to take a stronger position on Yemen and expressed concern about Iranian influence amid the political instability there, a senior State Department official said yesterday after meetings with U.S.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed 47 Islamic militants in the country’s Northern Sinai yesterday in one of the biggest operations in the region in months, security sources said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, which is fighting a violent insurgency in northeast Nigeria, has about 4,000-6,000 “hardcore” fighters, U.S.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The sudden resignation of Canada’s foreign minister has revealed strains inside the ruling Conservatives and complicates their bid to extend a decade in power in elections this October.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Several U.S. states are investigating a massive cyberattack on No.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Jordanian fighter jets pounded Islamic State targets in Syria yesterday, before roaring over the hometown of the pilot killed by the militants while King Abdullah consoled the victim’s family.
KIEV, (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany and France announced a new peace plan for Ukraine yesterday, flying to Kiev with a proposal they would then take on to Moscow.
(Reuters) – Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection yesterday and said it had a deal in place to sell as many as 2,400 stores to an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, its lender and largest shareholder.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed a “relentless” war against Islamic State on their own territory yesterday in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a cage.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – The death toll from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a Taipei river shortly after taking off has risen to 31, Taiwanese officials said yesterday, and could rise further with 12 people still missing.
VALHALLA, N.Y., (Reuters) – Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said yesterday, describing the area’s worst rail crash in decades.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru established a no-fly zone over its most lawless coca-producing region in a bid to stop a growing number of small planes from smuggling cocaine to neighboring countries, the government said on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner has told family members, including reality TV personalities the Kardashians, that he is becoming a woman and they have pledged their support, People magazine reported yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A global fund should be created to speed development of much-needed new antibiotics to counter the growing threat of drug-resistant superbugs, a British-government backed review said yesterday.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Salvadorans should see the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, as an opportunity to seek reconciliation in their violence-plagued country, a Vatican official said yesterday.
MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y., (Reuters) – Seven people were killed and a dozen injured when a crowded New York commuter train struck a car stalled on the tracks near suburban White Plains during rush hour on Tuesday evening, in what officials said was the railroad’s deadliest accident.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Islamic State militants released a video yesterday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage, a killing that shocked the world and prompted Jordan to promise an “earth-shaking” response.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – An Argentine prosecutor found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center, the investigator into his death said yesterday.
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