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North Korea defies U.S. and fires missiles 

Reuters - 44 mins ago

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 »

  • Honduras rulers renounce OAS charter 

    Reuters - 1 hour 34 mins ago

    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 »

  • A video frame grab shows former U.S. Republican Alaska Governor Sarah Palin departing after announcing that she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor in Wasilla, Alaska, July 3, 2009. REUTERS/KTUU-TV

    Palin resigning as Alaska governor in surprise move 

    Reuters - 2 hours 51 mins ago

    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 »

  • A vintage car moves past a portrait of Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro in Havana July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa

    Fidel Castro honoured with a reggaeton song

    Reuters - 7 hours 39 mins ago

    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 »

  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L) holds a meeting with Myanmar's junta supremo Senior General Than Shwe (R) in Naypyidaw, July 3, 2009. REUTERS/Louis Charbonneau

    U.N.'s Ban to meet again with Myanmar supremo over Suu Kyi 

    Reuters - 7 hours 50 mins ago

    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 »

  • Police in full riot gear walk past residents in this undated photo uploaded to Twitter July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Twitter

    UK embassy staff face trial in Iran 

    Reuters - 7 hours 58 mins ago

    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 »

  • Irish aid worker kidnapped in Darfur

    Reuters - 8 hours 1 min ago

    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 »

  • Pakistani military helicopter crashes, 26 dead 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 06:30 pm

    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 »

  • Putin rejects Obama criticism before meeting

    Reuters - Yesterday, 05:01 pm

    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 »

  • China wind companies poised for green policy boost

    Reuters - Yesterday, 07:30 am

    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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