SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea test-fired four missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in an act of defiance towards the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May. More »
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras's interim rulers spurned a demand from the Organisation of American States on Friday to restore leftist President Manuel Zelaya to power and said they would no longer recognise the OAS charter, deepening Central America's worst political crisis in decades. More »
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor. More »
HAVANA (Reuters) - Since he swept into power 50 years ago, Cuba's Fidel Castro has been honoured in poems, movies and paintings and now in reggaeton, a form of music widely popular among Cuban youth but not island leaders. More »
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets again with Myanmar junta supremo on Saturday when he expects a verdict on whether he will be allowed to visit detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. More »
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that detained British embassy staff would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, and EU countries summoned Iranian envoys to protest against the detentions. More »
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed men seized two female aid workers, one Irish and one Ugandan, in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday, their employer said, the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months. More »
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles on Friday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an expected Pakistani military offensive in the area. More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's charge that he was mired in Cold War thinking, setting the scene for a stormy first meeting at a Moscow summit next week. More »
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ambitious plan to increase wind power capacity could attract up to $150 billion (91.4 billion pounds) in investment, but Beijing will have to get serious about revamping regulations and building much needed infrastructure. More »
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