 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO planes resumed bombardments of Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi's son said the Libyan leader was willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost, an offer rejected by rebels and the United States. | |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - China will boost offshore surveillance by adding ships and 6,000 personnel by 2020, state media said on Friday, another move likely to raise tensions with neighbors staking rival claims to waters thought to hold vast reserves of oil and gas. | |
 ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will name a new cabinet on Friday to muster support for painful economic reforms, despite public unrest and a split in his party that could push the country closer to debt default. | |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million people in central and southern provinces. | |
 DUBAI (Reuters) - Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted former prime minister backing his sister's bid to unseat the ruling party in Thailand's upcoming general election, is optimistic about the outcome -- and a possible homecoming. | |
 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council Thursday delayed by a day its vote to recommend Ban Ki-moon for a second term as U.N. chief after Cuba and other Latin American countries declined to endorse him, envoys said. | |
 BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of President Bashar al-Assad and focus of anti-corruption protests, is quitting business, state media said, in a major concession to demonstrations against Assad's rule. | |
| Syria's Makhlouf owes fortune and infamy to Assad Thu,16 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Tycoon Rami Makhlouf, who says he is quitting the Syrian business scene, owes his fortune and his role as a hate figure for protesters to his cousin President Bashar al-Assad. Full Story1 | |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told police he had diplomatic immunity shortly after he was detained at a New York airport on accusations he tried to rape a hotel maid, court papers showed Thursday. | |
 DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's long-serving number two, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken over the leadership after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group said on Islamist websites on Thursday. | |
| TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO planes resumed bombardments of Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi's son said the Libyan leader was willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost, an offer rejected by rebels and the United States. | |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three years after what the Pentagon called the most significant breach of U.S. military networks ever, new versions of the malware blamed for the attack are still roiling U.S. networks, Reuters has learned. | |
| Libya rebels say east position hit by air strike Thu,16 Jun 2011 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said an attack on a Libyan rebel position near the town of Ajdabiyah wounded at least 16 fighters on Thursday in what may have been a friendly fire incident caused by a NATO air strike. Full Story1 | |
| Syria protest hate figure Makhlouf to quit business Thu,16 Jun 2011 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of the president, is quitting business and moving to charity work, state television said on Thursday, a move that would meet a demand of protesters seeking an end to Bashar al-Assad's rule. Full Story1 | |
| Factbox: Quick Guide to the Greek crisis Thu,16 Jun 2011 02:49 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Greece's problems servicing its debt have prompted fears it could default and spark a global financial crisis similar to that which followed the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008. Full Story1 | |
| Analysis: In India, hotel operators invest and educate Thu,16 Jun 2011 01:42 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK/BANGALORE (Reuters) - In the United States, big hotel chains get to float above the fray. India brings them down to earth. Full Story1 | |
| Sudan border state foes agree to talks: Mbeki Thu,16 Jun 2011 01:24 PM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The warring parties in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state have agreed hostilities should cease and that talks should start, former South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. Full Story1 | |
| Hunt for Gaddafi backers in east Libya shows tension Thu,16 Jun 2011 01:11 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - With conflict dragging into a fifth month, a series of blasts and shootings have rattled the east Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi and fueled a drive to weed out Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists. Full Story1 | |
| Yemen gunmen attack in south, Saleh vows to fight on Thu,16 Jun 2011 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed on Thursday to overcome Yemen's crisis, signaling once again he has no plans to quit, and in the latest in a wave of raids, gunmen attacked government buildings and a checkpoint. Full Story1 | |
| U.N.'s Ban urges Assad to halt Syria violence Thu,16 Jun 2011 11:06 AM PDT Reuters - BRASILIA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had spoken to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and urged him to "stop killing people" and to engage in dialogue. Full Story1 | |
 ABUJA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside Nigeria's police headquarters on Thursday, officials said, killing several people and marking a serious deterioration in security in the West African nation. | |
| Israel to stop Gaza flotilla regardless of cargo Thu,16 Jun 2011 10:16 AM PDT Reuters - TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel will do everything necessary to prevent a planned international flotilla from reaching Gaza, despite the fact the ships will probably not be carrying weapons, a senior military source said. Full Story1 | |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - Mexican Central Bank Governor and IMF-contender Agustin Carstens rebuked his European counterparts on Thursday for reneging on their promise to back a non-European to head the fund and vowed to give emerging powers more say if elected. | |
 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican federal police on Thursday announced the capture of a senior crime boss linked to the powerful Juarez drug cartel known as "El Brad Pitt." | |
| Analysis: Cracks in Syrian army after 3 months of protest Thu,16 Jun 2011 09:18 AM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's military, spearheading assaults on cities and towns to crush a three-month uprising, is showing cracks along sectarian lines that could threaten President Bashar al-Assad's political survival. Full Story1 | |
 BAYONNE, France (Reuters) - The bodies of more than 100 victims from a Rio-Paris flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago arrived in France on Thursday, allowing experts to start the process of identifying them. | |
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks and armored vehicles reinforced positions around the northern town of Maarat al-Numaan on Thursday after thousands of people fled President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on dissent. | |
| Blurred lines at Bahrain's GFH Thu,16 Jun 2011 08:25 AM PDT Reuters - MANAMA, Jun (Reuters) - As with many Gulf-based firms it's difficult to find a strong dividing line between GFH's finances and the personal accounts of its senior managers. Full Story1 | |
 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is reviving fears of sectarian violence with a warning he will unleash his Shi'ite Mehdi Army militia again if U.S. forces stay in the country beyond a year-end deadline. | |
 DUBAI (Reuters) - Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted former prime minister backing his sister's bid to unseat the ruling party in Thailand's upcoming general election, is optimistic about the outcome -- and a possible homecoming. | |
 AVAZA, Turkmenistan (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's all-powerful leader promises that, one day soon, he will build a Las Vegas on the windswept shores of the Caspian Sea. | |
 OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Three months after eastern Japan was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami, gloom has once again settled over Osaka's long-depressed property market. | |
 (Reuters) - Veteran militant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken command of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden, an Islamist website said on Thursday, a move that had been expected after his many years as second in command. | |
| Analysis: Syria's Assad loses his grip to hardliners Thu,16 Jun 2011 05:55 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad is losing control to his hardline relatives, his forces are overstretched, his government is running out of money and the revolt against his rule is gathering support and funding. Full Story1 | |
| Analysis: Zawahri seeks to rally embattled al Qaeda Thu,16 Jun 2011 05:39 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's new chief Ayman al-Zawahri may struggle to rally his embattled militants after the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2 and the simultaneous capture by U.S. forces of some of the group's innermost secrets. Full Story1 | |
 VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Riot police fired tear gas to control a mob that burned cars and looted shops in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins. | |
 WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa chuckles as he recounts a conversation he had in April with reformers in Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Spring. | |
 JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was jailed for 15 years on Thursday for helping plan a paramilitary group that aimed to kill the country's president, a sentence that could inflame hardcore Islamists who had vowed revenge. | |
| Jailed Indonesian cleric Bashir frail but defiant Thu,16 Jun 2011 03:40 AM PDT Reuters - JAKARTA (Reuters) - Frail and reed-thin, militant Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has long cultivated the image of an avuncular Muslim preacher persecuted by his own government. Full Story1 | |
| Timeline: Messages attributed to al Qaeda's Zawahri Thu,16 Jun 2011 03:33 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Following is a timeline of some of the major statements attributed to Ayman al-Zawahri in the past two years, as an Islamist website announced on Thursday he had taken command of al Qaeda. Full Story1 | |
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