Reuters: International News

Lebanon govt denounces "coup"

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:13:05 -0400

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the U.S.-backed governing coalition described as "an armed and bloody coup".

Big powers say nuclear treaty at risk, cite Iran

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:34:41 -0400

GENEVA (Reuters) - The five major nuclear-armed powers said on Friday the Non-Proliferation Treaty was under threat and cited Iran's uranium enrichment campaign in a rare joint call for action to shore up the NPT.

Olmert defies calls to resign over bribe probe

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:15:58 -0400

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defied a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police inquiry into allegations of bribery.

Mediator Mbeki holds talks with Mugabe on poll crisis

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:38:50 -0400

HARARE (Reuters) - Mediator and South African leader Thabo Mbeki held talks with President Robert Mugabe on Friday on Zimbabwe's disputed election, officials said, ahead of a possible run-off that has raised concerns of further violence.

Rocket hits BBC office in Baghdad, no one hurt

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:46:38 -0400

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket hit the BBC office in Baghdad on Friday but no one was wounded in the attack, the British broadcaster said.

Austrian Fritzl remanded for a month in incest case

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:56:09 -0400

ST POELTEN, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian court on Friday ordered Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and had seven children with her, to be kept in custody for a further month, a court spokesman said.

Sri Lanka cafe bomb kills 11 ahead of elections

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:36:55 -0400

COLOMBO (Reuters) - A bomb went off inside a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka killing at least 11 people on Friday, the military said, a day before the first local elections in the region in two decades.

Spanish reporter shot by foreign soldiers in Haiti

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:51:01 -0400

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish journalist Ricardo Ortega was shot dead by foreign soldiers in Haiti in 2004, according to a court order from the Caribbean country, the contents of which were made public by Ortega's family on Friday.

NATO-led force soldier killed in Afghan operation

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:35:18 -0400

KABUL (Reuters) - A soldier from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan was killed during an operation in a province near the Pakistan border on Friday, the force said.

Attacks on aid staff hinder work in south Sudan

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:36:35 -0400

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 25 attacks on aid workers in south Sudan's capital Juba in the past two months have forced staff to relocate and is hindering development in the region recovering from Africa's longest civil war, aid officials said on Friday.