MOSCOW/KIEV, Jan. 8, 2009 (Reuters) — The two top gas executives from Russian and Ukraine held talks in Moscow on Thursday, in the first face-to-face contact since their row choked off supplies to EU countries in bitter winter weather. ... > full story
GAZA, Jan. 6, 2009 (Reuters) — Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip killed more than 30 Palestinian civilians on Tuesday, medical officials said, and international efforts to secure a ceasefire focused on an Israeli demand to prevent Hamas from rearming. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — The trial of an Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad has been postponed pending an appeal over whether the incident amounted to an assault, his lawyer said on Wednesday. ... > full story
BAIDOA, Somalia, Dec. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned on Monday, ending a deadlock at the top of the fractured government and opening the door for a new administration in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation. ... > full story
BEIJING/TOKYO, Dec. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Three Chinese naval vessels left for Somalia on Friday to help tackle piracy in a sign of the country's rising global clout, and Japan said it may soon follow suit. ... > full story
MOSCOW, Dec. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe can only patrol in Georgia next year if their mandate is changed to take account of Moscow's concerns, Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday. ... > full story
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon vowed on Monday not to back down from the fight against powerful drug cartels who decapitated eight soldiers in the most serious blow to the army in a 2-year-old offensive. ... > full story
VIENNA, Dec. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — The OSCE said on Monday it would start shutting down its mission in Georgia on January 1 after Russia blocked a proposal to extend it in a standoff over the status of the breakaway South Ossetia region. ... > full story
GENEVA, Dec. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is "a mad dictator" who has lost all sense of reality, a United Nations human rights expert said on Monday. ... > full story
Chinese navy sets sail for historic anti-piracy mission Dec. 26, 2008 (Sydney Morning Herald) — A Chinese navy anti-piracy task force has set sail for Africa, state media said, in the nation's first potential combat mission beyond its ...
German navy foils Somali pirates Dec. 25, 2008 (BBC News) — The German navy says it has foiled an attempt by pirates to hijack an Egyptian cargo vessel off Somalia. . Six Somali pirates were captured by ...
German warship, helicopter foil Egyptian ship hijack: watchdog Dec. 25, 2008 (Australian Broadcasting Company) — Heavily armed Somali pirates shot a sailor on an Egyptian bulk carrier in a hijack bid that was foiled by the quick reaction of a German warship, a ...
Germans Save Egyptian Vessel From Pirate Attack Dec. 25, 2008 (Voice of America) — A maritime official says German forces have rescued an Egyptian ship from a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden.. Noel Choong of the International ...
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