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Voting ends in Iran's run-off parliamentary vote: TV

2008-04-25 19:52:10 - Reuters: International News

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Polling stations closed across Iran on Friday in a parliamentary run-off election which are unlikely to have any impact on the firm control of conservatives over the assembly. ... Read here...

Russia threatens Georgia over separatists

2008-04-25 19:45:47 - Reuters: International News

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned on Friday it could use military force to protect its "compatriots" in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia if they were attacked. ... Read here...

Sri Lanka military blame Tigers as bus bomb kills 24

2008-04-25 19:39:14 - Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger bomb ripped through a packed commuter bus on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday,... Read here...

Iraq's Sadr tells fighters to observe truce

2008-04-25 19:31:19 - Reuters: International News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled back from confrontation with the government on Friday, asking his followers to continue to observe a shaky ceasefire and not to battle g... Read here...

French police make arrest in Swedish murder case

2008-04-25 19:16:11 - Reuters: International News

PARIS (Reuters) - French police said on Friday they had arrested a man in connection with the killing of a Swedish teenager who was abducted and murdered in Paris. Read here...

Book suggests brother's death changed bin Laden

2008-04-25 18:24:18 - Reuters: International News

LONDON (Reuters) - A new book looks at Osama bin Laden through the prism of his family, and suggests that the death of his extrovert playboy brother Salem in a 1988 plane crash was an important factor... Read here...

Islamist video responds to Dutch film and war on terror

2008-04-25 16:26:28 - Reuters: International News

DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked website has posted a 10-minute film showing civilians killed or maimed in U.S. and Israeli air strikes as an answer to an anti-Koran film released by Dutch lawmake... Read here...

Car bomb kills at least three in Pakistan

2008-04-25 16:24:25 - Reuters: International News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants exploded a car bomb outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least three people, police and a militant spokesman sai... Read here...

Somali leaders send militia after pirates

2008-04-25 16:07:19 - Reuters: International News

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Spanish fishing boat seized off Somalia was spotted on Friday near a remote coastal town and local leaders there said they had sent gunmen to chase away the pirates holding the... Read here...

Iranians vote in run-off parliamentary election

2008-04-25 11:10:08 - Reuters: International News

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians voted on Friday for Iran's run-off parliamentary election which is likely to have no impact on the firm control of conservatives after the disqualification of many reformis... Read here...

Rice price surge frustrates and puzzles Asians

2008-04-25 11:04:42 - Reuters: International News

MANILA (Reuters) - From the airconditioned supermarkets of Tokyo to the open-air stalls of Manila reactions across Asia to record leaps in the price of rice vary from fear and frustration to a nonplus... Read here...

Israel snubs Hamas offer of six-month truce

2008-04-25 10:51:31 - Reuters: International News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel dismissed on Friday a proposal by Hamas to call a conditional six-month truce in the Gaza Strip, calling it a ruse aimed at allowing the Palestinian Islamist group to reco... Read here...

Argentine economy minister Lousteau resigns

2008-04-25 08:49:56 - Reuters: International News

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine Economy Minister Martin Lousteau resigned on Thursday after less than five months managing Latin America's No. 3 economy and was replaced by the tax agency chief, a ... Read here...

Torch arrives in Japan under tight security

2008-04-25 08:06:45 - Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan called for calm, but braced for trouble, at its leg of the Olympic torch relay as the flame arrived under tight security on Friday, after emotional scenes at the relay's other ... Read here...

U.N. urges world to help Africa fight malaria

2008-04-25 07:38:32 - Reuters: International News

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a new campaign on World Malaria Day on Friday, calling on the world to ensure that all of Africa has access to basic malaria cont... Read here...

Car bomb kills at least three in NW Pakistan

2008-04-25 06:46:40 - Reuters: International News

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A car bomb outside a police station killed at least three people and wounded 15 in Mardan town in northwest Pakistan on Friday, a senior police officer said. ... Read here...

Bush assures Abbas on statehood

2008-04-25 05:18:41 - Reuters: International News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush assured Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that Palestinian statehood remained a high priority in his final 10 months in office despite f... Read here...

Indian films breath life into Pakistani cinemas

2008-04-25 04:20:54 - Reuters: International News

KARACHI (Reuters) - It's a busy night at the Prince cinema in the Pakistani city of Karachi with cars parked across the pavement outside and spilling onto a main street. Read here...

World Food Program launches emergency call for Haiti

2008-04-25 03:08:08 - Reuters: International News

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The World Food Program lacks crucially needed funds to help feed Haiti's poor, and international donors must provide urgent and massive aid, a spokesman for the United Natio... Read here...

Torch arrives in Japan under tense security

2008-04-25 02:43:47 - Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan braced for potentially chaotic protests at the Olympic torch relay as it arrived under tight security on Friday, similar to those that have disrupted some of the flame's other ... Read here...