PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) — U.S. state governors urged President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday to pump money into infrastructure and help support the poor as a sinking economy hits state budgets hard. ... > full story
BANGKOK, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) — Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded on Tuesday, spurring jubilant anti-government protesters to end their blockades of Bangkok's airports. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — An Iraqi court on Sunday ordered the release of a freelance photographer working for Reuters news agency who has been held by U.S. forces since early September. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq's government tried to quell criticism on Sunday of a security pact which sets deadlines for U.S. military withdrawals, saying opponents could wait to judge how Washington honors commitments to pull back its troops. ... > full story
NAJAF, Iraq, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq's influential Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has reservations about a pact allowing U.S. troops to stay for three more years, but politicians must decide its value, a source said on Saturday. ... > full story
DOHA, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for the global financial crisis on Saturday, saying other countries were being dragged in to help resolve Western problems. ... > 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
KABUL, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — Dozens of angry Afghans pelted police with stones after a convoy of foreign contractors rammed a minivan off a road and one civilian was killed and three more wounded in the Afghan capital on Friday, witnesses said. ... > 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
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — President-elect Barack Obama moved closer to assembling his national security team on Tuesday, with sources saying Robert Gates would likely keep his job as defense secretary and retired Marine Gen. James Jones be named national security adviser. ... > full story
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Iran Expands Uranium-Enrichment, Space Work Nov. 26, 2008 (Voice of America) — Iran has announced advances in both its nuclear and space programs.. Iran's nuclear chief says there are now 5,000 centrifuges running at the ...
Iran says it now runs more than 5,000 centrifuges Nov. 26, 2008 (San Diego Union-Tribune) — Iran now has more than 5,000 centrifuges operating and enriching uranium at the country's central plant, its nuclear chief said Wednesday, in the ...
Iran signals nuclear work expansion Nov. 26, 2008 (Boston Globe) — Iran now has 5,000 working uranium enrichment centrifuges, a senior official was quoted as saying on Wednesday, signaling an expansion of work the ...
Iran's Basij troops stage defense drills Nov. 26, 2008 (Xinhua News Agency) — Iran's Basij (volunteer) troops organized civil defense drills on Sunday to prepare for any hostile air strikes, the semi-official Fars news agency ...
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