International

By Peroshni Govender and Jeff Mason PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG | Fri Jun 28, 2013 (Reuters) - South Africa's ailing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is doing much better in hospital, his ex-wife Winnie…

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Fri Jun 28, 2013 (Reuters) - How deep is the divide separating Russia and the United States on Syria? A photo from the recent G8 summit in Northern Ireland says…

Nelson Mandela was put on life support Wednesday, with tribal leaders in South Africa reportedly being told to prepare for the death of the former president. Leaders from Mandela’s tribe, including…

By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG | Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:29pm EDT (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma canceled a trip to neighboring Mozambique on Thursday, intensifying speculation about a…

(Reuters) - A former U.S. spy agency contractor sought by Washington on espionage charges appeared on Wednesday to be still in hiding at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and the national airline said he…

By Luke Baker BRUSSELS | Tue Jun 25, 2013 (Reuters) - For the best part of a year, the minds of European policymakers have focused on one overriding issue - banking union. By establishing stricter…

By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG | Mon Jun 24, 2013 5:53am EDT (Reuters) - South Africans adopted a mood of somber resignation on Monday to the inevitability of saying goodbye to former president Nelson…

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida | Sat Jun 22, 2013 (Reuters) - Two voice identification experts who suggested that unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin screamed for help before he was shot and…

By Brian Winter and Jeferson Ribeiro SAO PAULO/BRASILIA | Sat Jun 22, (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff promised on Friday to hold a dialogue with members of a protest movement sweeping…

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Ahead of the 39th G8 Summit held at Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland, president of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Belfast’s…

By Paulo Prada and Maria Carolina Marcello RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA | Thursday 20,2013 (Reuters) - An estimated 1 million people took to the streets in cities across Brazil on Thursday as the country's…

(Reuters) - Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between U.S. and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.…

LONDON, England, Wednesday June 19, 2013 – A group of British MPs and peers have claimed in a report that new migration rules for people from outside the European Union are "tearing British families…

By Andrew Osborn and Maria Golovnina ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland | Tue Jun 18, 2013 (Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama's efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian…

By Todd Benson and Asher Levine SAO PAULO | Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:06am EDT (Reuters) - As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave…