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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of U.S. drone strikes against extremists More »

The FTSE lost close to 2% in early trading on the back of signs the US may wind down quantitative easing measures and weak Chinese data. More »

By Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Thursday his country would never become a member of the International Criminal Court More »

By Arshad Mohammed JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday and acknowledged More »

President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes abroad and launched a new bid to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, seeking to rein in a More »

After three days of combing through the wreckage of their storm-shattered community, officials in Moore, Oklahoma, say all residents have been accounted for. More »

Syria's main opposition group met for key talks in Istanbul on Thursday to debate whether to join a new US-Russian peace initiative to end the two-year civil war, More »

MILAN (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was involved in a tax fraud scheme while he was head of government, a Milan court said in a More »

By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered in stormy weather on Thursday to mourn a 9-year-old girl who loved to sing, dance and paint, More »

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is trying to accelerate its uranium enrichment programme, a U.N. nuclear report showed, but experts said it was unclear when More »

By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has torn up new rules on how restaurants should serve olive oil less than a week after unveiling More »

Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to More »

Groups of youths in Stockholm have burnt down a restaurant and torched more than 30 cars in a fourth night of rioting. More »

The two men suspected of butchering a soldier on a London street in a gruesome Islamist attack were known to security agents, government sources suggested on More »

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government plans to cut labour taxes within a few months, funding the measure by reducing public spending, Economy Minister Fabrizio More »

French prosecutors grilled IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a Paris court on Thursday to decide if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon More »

Up to 25 people have been killed and others taken hostage in twin attacks on a military base and a uranium mine in Niger. More »

UN chief Ban Ki-moon pledged Thursday that UN troops will be in place within "one or two months" to battle armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo's More »

US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted on Thursday there was scepticism and cynicism about his bid to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians on his More »

Thieves have made off with a high-priced necklace made by Switzerland's De Grisogono in the second jewellery theft at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the company More »

By Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's largest party GERB declined on Thursday to try to form a new government, opening the way for the rival Socialists More »

By Niklas Pollard and Philip O'Connor STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of More »

A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's More »

Islamist militants staged twin suicide car bombings on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and taking More »

Rioters torched cars and attacked local police stations in 15 immigrant-populated Stockholm suburbs in a fourth night of riots on Thursday, shattering Sweden's More »

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Job cuts in the Dutch civil service will go deeper than initially planned, affecting up to one in eight employees over the next five years as More »

MILAN (Reuters) - The prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of threats, including one with More »

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar More »