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WASHINGTON, USA -- The US Department of Justice, six state attorneys general and the District of Columbia filed a civil antitrust lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the proposed $11 billion merger between…

By William James and Peter Griffiths LONDON | Mon Aug 12, 2013 (Reuters) - Britain warned Spain on Monday it might take legal action to try to force Madrid to abandon tighter controls at the border…

By Euan Rocha TORONTO | Mon Aug 12, 2013 (Reuters) - Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd is weighing options that could include an outright sale, it said on Monday, and its largest shareholder…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a stinging rebuke to the Bloomberg administration, a federal judge ruled on Monday that the New York City Police's "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactics violate the…

(Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to change how it prosecutes some non-violent drug offenders, so they would no longer face mandatory minimum prison sentences, in an overhaul of federal prison…

(Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, denied an accusation by Labour that it turns away British workers to exploit cheaper migrant labour. In remarks that could drag British retailers into a…

(Reuters) - At least 22 people in Afghanistan were killed and farmland was damaged when flash floods hit a plain near the capital, officials said on Sunday. Normally arid Afghanistan can get heavy…

By Paul Eckert and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON | Fri Aug 9, 2013 (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian officials agreed on Friday on the need to convene a long-delayed Syrian peace conference in Geneva as soon…

By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD | Fri Aug 9, 2013 2:55am EDT (Reuters) - The U.S. government ordered the evacuation of non-essential staff from its consulate in the northeastern Pakistani city of…

By Nadia Damouni, Euan Rocha and Greg Roumeliotis Fri Aug 9, 2013 12:01am EDT (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is warming up to the possibility of going private, as the smartphone maker battles to revive…

UK border staff in France are failing to take the fingerprints of thousands of illegal immigrants caught trying to enter Britain, inspectors say. The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration said…

TORONTO, Canada, Monday August 5, 2013 - Organizers of the Caribbean Carnival parade here have expressed “heartfelt sympathies” to the friends and family of a teen-age reveller who died after he was…

By Lisa Maria Garza FORT HOOD, Texas | Tue Aug 6, 2013 (Reuters) - The court-martial of Nidal Hasan begins on Tuesday, with the U.S. Army major facing charges he killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting…

By Paul Taylor LONDON | Mon Aug 5, 2013 1:55am EDT (Reuters) - Britain's long-running political civil war over Europe is as much about symbols as it is about substance. So advisers to Prime Minister…

MOSCOW (AP):National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said…