Reuters: World News

Death toll from China quake soars past 13,000

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:51:43 +0100

DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll in China's earthquake climbed past 13,000 on Tuesday and looked set to rise much higher after media said some 19,000 people were buried in rubble in just one area.

Bomb blasts kill 60 in western India

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:32:49 +0100

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Sixty people were killed in a series of bomb attacks in India's western city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, police, officials and witnesses said.

West urges Myanmar to act on crucial aid

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:37:51 +0100

YANGON (Reuters) - Heavy rains pelted homeless cyclone survivors in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday, complicating the already slow delivery of aid to more than 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease.

U.S. slams Zimbabwe for "harassment" of diplomats

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:05:27 +0100

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemned Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday for its "harassment" of the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats questioned by police after visiting post-election violence victims at a hospital.

Iran's president to offer proposals to ease nuclear row

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:33:43 +0100

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will soon put forward new proposals to resolve its dispute with the West over its nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.

Olmert says understandings reached in peace talks

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:00:09 +0100

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had reached "understandings and points of agreement" on some key issues in U.S-backed peace talks.

N.Korea to cooperate on nuclear verification

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:01:49 +0100

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to cooperate fully on verifying its nuclear declaration, a U.S. official said on Tuesday as he displayed some of the 18,822 documents Pyongyang has given Washington about its plutonium program.

Lebanon's Hariri vows no surrender to Hezbollah

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:36:23 +0100

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to impose their will on the nation by force.

Shi'ite gunmen in Baghdad slum ignore truce

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:11:43 +0100

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An agreement aimed at ending fighting in the Baghdad bastion of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appeared on the verge of collapse on Tuesday after gunmen attacked U.S. troops.

U.S. drops charges against accused "20th hijacker"

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:55:50 +0100

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it dropped charges against a Saudi who U.S. officials say intended to be the "20th hijacker" on September 11 but sent five others to trial for allegedly planning the 2001 attacks.