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North Korea makes new threat as Obama arrives in Asia

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:36:09 -0500

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's military warned the South that it was ready for battle over a disputed sea border, issuing a new threat on Friday that raised tension as U.S. President Barack Obama started a major tour of Asia.

Medvedev pitches modern Russia, warns opposition

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:14:10 -0500

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday Russia needed to embrace sweeping reforms to become a modern world power but warned the opposition against sowing chaos in the name of democracy.

Bomber attacks Pakistani intelligence agency; 9 dead

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:57:06 -0500

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked an office used by Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing nine people and wounding 55, officials said.

Abbas to accept Palestinian election delay: officials

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:25:07 -0500

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said.

Maoists raid logging firm in Philippines, 23 dead

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:53:59 -0500

MANILA (Reuters) - Communist guerrillas raided and torched a logging company in the southern Philippines and killed at least 12 people in a shootout with security forces, officials said on Friday.

Blast strikes near U.S. military base in Kabul

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:34:25 -0500

KABUL (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a NATO convoy just outside a U.S. military base in Kabul early on Friday, wounding civilian contractors, foreign soldiers and Afghan bystanders, the NATO-led force said.

British ex-PM Blair faces Iraq inquiry next year

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:03:06 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will face questioning next year about Britain's entry into the Iraq war from a committee which has heard the decision was illegal and based on deception, its chairman said on Friday.

UK's ruling Labour keeps seat in Scottish fiefdom

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:55:31 -0500

GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Labour Party enjoyed a comprehensive win on Friday in a vote for a parliamentary seat in one of its Scottish strongholds, probably the last such test of public opinion before a general election.

Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:58:09 -0500

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say.

WITNESS: Afghan night mission ends in bullets

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:08:22 -0500

Deborah Gembara recently returned to Washington from a six-week reporting stint in Afghanistan. In the following story she recounts a night mission last month with U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.