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Pakistan gets IMF relief, tightens security
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by
Drug gangs prey on migrants in risky Mexico journey
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Hermelindo Maquin set out from his home in the Guatemalan countryside in early August, leaving behind his small farm and pregnant ...
S.Africa state workers reject offer, take to streets
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African state workers staged a protest march on Thursday after rejecting a revised wage offer aimed at ending their three-week ...
Despite embargo, Cuba a haven for pirated U.S. goods
HAVANA (Reuters) - A few weeks after Ashton Kutcher's latest comedy "Killers" premiered in the United States, the movie was already entertaining the masses in ...
Putin says no grain exports before 2011 harvest
MOSCOW/SARATOV, Russia (Reuters) - Russia abruptly signaled Thursday it would extend a grain export ban until late 2011 and ordered authorities to prevent speculators driving ...
Israelis and Palestinians agree to more peace meetings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders opened direct peace talks under U.S. auspices on Thursday and agreed to meet every two weeks to try ...
Sudan referendum body agrees post to end deadlock
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's referendum commission agreed on a key post on Thursday, ending a deadlock which has stalled plans for the January 9 southern ...
Afghan leader condemns air strike as Gates arrives
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned on Thursday an air strike by NATO-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign workers, although ...
Afghanistan assures bank customers amid graft fears
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government sought to avert a run on the country's top private bank by nervous investors after directors at Kabulbank resigned, ostensibly ...
Iran opposition figure's house attacked: website
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Attackers smashed windows and damaged security cameras at the home of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi, his website said Thursday, ahead of ...
Blast kills at least 15 in Pakistan mosque
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A blast inside a mosque in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border killed at least 15 people on ...
Rebels gang-rape almost 200 women in Congo attack
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo gang-raped almost 200 women during a four-day seizure of a town, aid groups said. ...
Chile secures lifeline to trapped miners
COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Rescue workers on Monday reinforced a small drill hole to serve as an umbilical cord to 33 miners found alive 17 ...
S.Africa state workers defy court order, arrests made
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African state workers defied a court order to return to work on Monday and police fired rubber bullets to disperse ...
U.S. pullout from Iraq a mountainous challenge
CAMP ADDER, Iraq (Reuters) - For months now First Lieutenant Sidney Leslie's mind has not been on protecting U.S. military convoys in Iraq from bomb ...
Pakistan to seek IMF help for flood-battered economy
SUKKUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan braced for more flooding in the south as officials were due to hold talks in Washington on Monday with the ...
Gunmen, seven hostages killed in Manila bus siege
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police shot dead a sacked former policeman as they stormed a bus on which he was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists ...
Spain says two al Qaeda hostages freed
MADRID (Reuters) - Two Spanish aid workers held by al Qaeda's North African wing were freed on Monday, the Spanish government said, ending a kidnapping ...
Australia's Labor and conservatives jockey for government
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia faces a week of political wrangling as votes were counted on Monday from an inconclusive election, with financial markets rowing back ...
Afghans start to remove Kabul roadblocks
KABUL (Reuters) - Authorities in Afghanistan, which holds elections next month, have started removing road blockades set up in Kabul to guard against attacks by ...
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