HRABOVE/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels yesterday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers.
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel fired shells into the Gaza Strip and militants kept up rocket fire into the Jewish state today with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough to end the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas in two years.
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) – A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23 billion in her lawsuit against the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation’s second-biggest cigarette maker.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled yesterday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set them a midday deadline to submit to Islamic rule or leave.
KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine has “compelling evidence” Russia played a defining role in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner by providing the rebels with missile systems and a crew, the country’s counter intelligence chief said on Saturday.
BERLIN/GENEVA, (Reuters) – As international investigators head to rebel-held eastern Ukraine to piece together what, and who, caused a Malaysian airliner to plunge into the steppe, securing evidence in the middle of a war zone is a major challenge.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court dealt a blow to the victims of financier Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme yesterday, ruling that they were not eligible under federal law to file claims seeking compensation for their losses.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras, (Reuters) – More than 40 Central American children were expelled from the United States on flights to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador yesterday, as the U.S.
MILAN, (Reuters) – An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned Silvio Berlusconi’s conviction on charges of abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor, in a significant legal victory for the former prime minister.
HRABOVE, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The United States believes a surface-to-air missile brought down a Malaysian airliner that crashed in eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing all 298 people on board, an incident that sharply raises the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel launched a Gaza ground campaign after 10 days of bombardments from the air and sea failed to stop militants’ rocket attacks, stepping up an offensive that already has taken a heavy toll in civilian lives.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama imposed the biggest package of U.S.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach yesterday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce requested by the United Nations.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil hopes that during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping it can boost ties with its biggest trade partner beyond the exchange of commodities for manufactured goods, but that may be wishful thinking.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The Netherlands is liable for about 300 of the more than 8,000 deaths in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, a Dutch court ruled yesterday, pinning some of the blame for Europe’s worst massacre since World War Two on the Dutch state.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Researchers are to investigate a giant mysterious hole that has appeared in one of Russia’s most isolated northernmost regions, state television reported.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran officials yesterday called for U.S. aid to Central America to reduce violence that has fueled a surge of child migration to the United States, with the foreign minister calling for a “mini-Marshall plan” to attack the broader underlying problems.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Netherlands is liable for some 300 of the more than 8,000 deaths in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, a Dutch court ruled today, pinning some of the blame for Europe’s worst massacre since World War Two on the state.
FORTALEZA, Brazil, (Reu-ters) – Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool yesterday in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system.
WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday that Central Americans trying to cross the U.S.
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