| ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has hailed kinder words from lenders and revived interest in the country's deeply-discounted bonds and stocks as a Greekovery to replace last year's Grexit catchphrase. Although there is little sign of economic recovery, G... |
| By Luke Baker BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European officials gave a lukewarm response to French President Francois Hollande's sweeping proposals for deeper euro zone integration on Friday, noting that many of his ideas were already in circulation. In a 2-1/2-hour news co... |
| By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will convene parliament on May 21, in an attempt to have a government formed quickly and end a political impasse in the European Union's poorest country. Under Bulgarian law, the president... |
| BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest days of its Dirty War dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87. Local media reported he died of natural... |
| By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta promised a wide reform of property tax on Friday, addressing one of the main issues dividing his coalition government, but gave no details on where he would find the billions of euros to pay for it. <... |
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 32 people were killed in two explosions outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, after Friday prayers, police and medics said. Attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite mosques, security forces and tribal leaders have spread ... |
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed in an explosion outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police and medics said on Friday. Attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite mosques, security forces and tribal leaders have spread since security... |
| By Alain Iloniaina ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) has said it will not recognize Andry Rajoelina as Madagascar's president if he wins July's presidential election, piling more pressure on the incumbent leader not to stand. Rajoelina plunged th... |
| ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed in an explosion outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, after Friday prayers, police and medics said. The death toll was likely to rise, they said. (Reporting by Is... |
| SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will convene parliament on May 21, in an attempt to have a government formed quickly and end a political impasse in the European Union's poorest country. Under Bulgarian law, the president must call the assembly within a month of t... |
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will convene a new parliament on May 21, in an attempt to have a new government formed quickly and end a political impasse in the European Union's poorest country. The biggest challenge now is to restore the trust of the people, w... |
| GAZA (Reuters) - Egyptian policemen blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said. Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates wi... |
| By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview. ... |
| By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence. Alberto Reyes assumed ... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he saw a good opportunity for progress towards ending the division of Cyprus, a move that could further the exploitation of natural gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean. The island has been divided since a Gr... |
| By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Jerusalem on Thursday against plans to enlist men from their community into the military, a proposal supported by the secular majority pushing for a more equal share of the burden on Israeli society. ... |
| By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken charge of drawing up ambitious reform plans to revitalize the economy, sources close to the government said, shunning policy stimulus for fear it could worsen local government debt and inflate property prices. ... |
| KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks ago. Both African countries agre... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemned as outrageous and offensive comments by the mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka who said this week that Japan's military brothels during World War Two were necessary to provide respite for soldiers. The remarks by Osaka Mayor Toru ... |
| By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States in 2011 to stop trying to recruit its security agents as spies and expelled a CIA operative in January this year after Washington ignored the warning, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday. ... |
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