Singapore PM falls ill during National Day rally
SINGAPORE - The National Day Rally on Sunday has been suspended after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong took ill. The medical team attending...
Suicide car bomber attacks local government office in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed on Sunday when suicide bombers from the militant al Shabaab group detonated two car...
Putin says hopes Ukraine sees common sense in diplomatic crisis
BELBEK AIR BASE, Crimea/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and...
IS pulls families out of towns in Syrian north
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have evacuated their families from a Syrian town at the Turkish border near a city that they...
South African capital joins ranks of metros run by opposition
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition party on Friday took control of the local government in the nation's capital,...
Japanese PM Abe will not visit war-dead shrine on WW2 anniversary - Jiji
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not visit a controversial shrine for war dead in Tokyo on the anniversary of...
Major 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes off Vanuatu - USGS
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck about 535 km (330 miles) southeast of the South Pacific island...
China rejects U.S. criticism of crackdown on rights defenders
BEIJING (Reuters) - China rebuked the United States on Saturday for criticising it over the convictions of rights activists, with a...
Singapore calls for vigilance after 'rocket attack' plot foiled
BATAM, Indonesia (Reuters) - Singapore called for heightened vigilance on Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men...
Late Russian oligarch Berezovsky's estate 'hopelessly insolvent'
LONDON (Reuters) - The estate of late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who helped broker Vladimir Putin's rise to the Kremlin's top job...
