SINGAPORE, Dec. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — Oil was steady below $44 on Friday, at its lowest level in almost four years, with eyes turning to the psychologically important $40 level as a widening economic slowdown gnaws into oil demand. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011. ... > full story
TOKYO, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — Iran would welcome talks between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, the country's vice president said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Iran is now running 5,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, a senior official said on Wednesday, signaling an expansion of work the West fears is aimed at making nuclear weapons. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali security forces will storm a hijacked Yemeni cargo ship if the pirates holding it refuse to free it without a ransom, a minister in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region said on Wednesday. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — Iran has executed an Iranian businessman convicted of spying on the military for the Islamic Republic's arch foe Israel, the judiciary said on Saturday. ... > full story
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — Western nations claimed a success on Friday when a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran passed through a key committee more easily than in the past. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, toppling an effigy of President George W. Bush where U.S. troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein. ... > full story
VIENNA, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — Iran rejected Friday U.S. reports it had enriched enough uranium to make an atom bomb, saying this would require steps it had ruled out like ejecting U.N. inspectors and leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). ... > full story
VIENNA, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — The United States said on Friday the first independent monitoring report on an alleged Syrian nuclear site had hardened suspicions that Syria was building a covert reactor and would raise pressure on it to come clean. ... > full story
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Indian navy sank Thai trawler, not pirate ship Nov. 26, 2008 (ThisIsLondon.co.uk) — THE PIRATE "mother ship" sunk last week by the Indian navy was a Thai fishing trawler that had been seized hours earlier by pirates, it emerged ...
The Pirates of Puntland Nov. 26, 2008 (Townhall.com) — Somalia's pirates have a big problem on their hands -- in the form of their greatest prize, the Saudi-owned oil tanker the Sirius Star. . . The ...
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