BRUSSELS, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who is little known outside his own country, as the bloc's first president on Thursday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the world stage. ... > full story
GENEVA, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Germany, the third largest contributor to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, on Thursday held out the possibility of sending more troops to the stalled, eight-year-old war after a review early next year. ... > full story
BRUSSELS, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Sweden is proposing Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy for the post of EU president and Britain's Catherine Ashton to become the EU's foreign policy chief, diplomats said on Thursday. ... > full story
MOGADISHU, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Somali pirates have freed a United Arab Emirates-owned cargo ship, a Somali businessman said on Thursday, dismissing suggestions that it had been carrying weapons to the anarchic country. ... > full story
BRUSSELS, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown backed compatriot Catherine Ashton on Thursday to become the European Union's foreign affairs chief, his spokesman said. ... > full story
HARARE, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President Robert Mugabe to honor their power-sharing accord. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — A U.S.-backed Sunni militia leader whose arrest provoked violence between Sunni fighters and forces of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government has been sentenced to death for murder and kidnapping, a court spokesman said on Thursday. ... > full story
BELFAST, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Army experts in Northern Ireland have defused a bomb which targeted police officers, police said on Thursday. ... > full story
THE HAGUE, Nov. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues Stephen Rapp made a debut appearance for the United States at the world's war crimes court Thursday and said the U.S. remained wary of politically driven prosecutions. ... > full story
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