International

By Arshad Mohammed and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON | Sat Aug 3, 2013 2:08am BST (Reuters) - The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning…

SOUTH AFRICAN President Jacob Zuma has challenged Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to produce evidence of rigging, as reports of Wednesday indicated that President Robert Mugabe was headed for a…

By Wanfeng Zhou NEW YORK | Fri Aug 2, 2013 9:13am EDT (Reuters) - The dollar tumbled against the euro and the yen on Friday after mixed signals about the U.S. labor market quashed expectations the…

By Roberto Landucci ROME | Fri Aug 2, 2013 8:52am EDT (Reuters) - Italy's fragile coalition government, already struggling to contain deep divisions over tax and economic policy, woke up to a whole…

By Stella Mapenzauswa HARARE | Thu Aug 1, 2013 1:42am EDT (Reuters) - Zimbabwe police vowed to crack down on any attempts to leak early results from Wednesday's vote, complicating plans by some civic…

LONDON, England, Wednesday July 31, 2013 – Researchers from the University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory in south west England have harnessed the power of urine and are able to charge a…

(Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Tuesday gave themselves about nine months to try to reach an agreement on ending their conflict of more than six decades in U.S.-brokered peace…

By Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 30, 2013 (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held their first peace talks in nearly three years on Monday in a U.S.-brokered…

By Maggie Fick and Shaimaa Fayed CAIRO | Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:34am EDT (Reuters) - The European Union's foreign policy chief was in Cairo on Monday, the first senior overseas envoy to visit Egypt's new…

Italian politicians have reacted with anger after the country's first black minister had bananas thrown at her during a political rally. Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, who has suffered racial…

By Robin Emmott and Ben Blanchard BRUSSELS/BEIJING | (Reuters) - China and the European Union defused their biggest trade dispute by far on Saturday with a deal to regulate Chinese solar panel imports…

By Teresa Medrano and Tracy Rucinski SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain | Fri Jul 26, 2013 (Reuters) - Spanish police were investigating on Friday if the driver of a train that crashed in Santiago de…

The Ohio man accused of raping and holding three women captive in his home for about a decade has agreed to a plea deal that will see him imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole. Ariel…

By Tracy Rucinski SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain | Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:37am EDT (Reuters) - The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing at least 80 people, was under police guard in hospital on…

Teresa Medrano and Miguel Vidal SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain | Thu Jul 25, 2013 (Reuters) - Police put the driver of a Spanish train under investigation on Thursday after at least 78 people died when…