Reuters
Monday, February 24, 2014 - 00:00
Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 11:51
Wide differences remain on how this could be achieved, although the two sides said on Thursday they agreed during meetings this week in the Austrian capital on an agenda and timetable for the talks on such an accord.
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 11:48
Explosions rocked five polling stations in eastern Libya on Thursday as voters began electing a body to draft a new constitution, another step in the OPEC producer's rocky transition since Muammar Gaddafi fell in 2011.
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 10:18
Less than 498,000 people cast ballots, the election commission said, out of one million who had registered to vote - a number far lower than the three million who did so before the 2012 parliamentary election.
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 10:14
At least 20 people were killed in Iraq when three mortar rounds struck a crowded market in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim town of Mussayab on Thursday evening, police and medics said.
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 08:52
Iran has stepped up support on the ground for President Bashar al-Assad, providing elite teams to gather intelligence and train troops, sources with knowledge of military movements say.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:45
However, a senior administration official who briefed reporters before Obama's meeting on Saturday with Jordan's King Abdullah said expanded aid to the rebels is a possibility - but only if it nudges the sides toward a diplomatic solution.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:39
Malian rebels agreed on Tuesday to confine members of their armed groups to barracks in U.N.-led preliminary talks in the capital, according to sources who attended and a copy of the agreement seen by Reuters.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:37
Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Wednesday and denied charges of stealing public funds, one of four cases against him, state television showed.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 08:35
A military offensive led by an expanded African peacekeeping force aims to drive Somali Islamist rebels out of their remaining strongholds by the end of 2014, the Somali prime minister said on Wednesday.