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Thai protesters defy order to leave PM's compound

1 hour 36 min ago

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters defied a court order to leave Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's official compound on Thursday as the group's leaders vowed to stay until his administration fell.

Bomb attack on Pakistani police kills 11

1 hour 43 min ago

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus traveled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said.

Authorities relax curfew in Indian Kashmir

1 hour 46 min ago

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Authorities tentatively relaxed a four-day curfew in Indian Kashmir on Thursday to allow people to buy essentials as residents ran short of food during massive protests against Indian rule.

Medvedev looks east for support on Georgia

1 hour 49 min ago

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looked east on Thursday for support for Moscow's tough line over Georgia, which has inflamed relations with the West and prompted talk of a new Cold War.

Malaysia's Anwar rejoins parliament, heads opposition

Thu, 2008/08/28 - 12:58am

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took another step towards his goal of bringing down the government and implementing ambitious reforms when he rejoined parliament on Thursday after a decade's absence.

Sudanese plane hijackers surrender in Libya

Thu, 2008/08/28 - 12:48am

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The hijackers of a Sudanese airliner surrendered to authorities in Libya on Wednesday after releasing all the passengers and crew, Libya's aviation authority said.

Pakistani lawyers to press government

Wed, 2008/08/27 - 11:45pm

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani lawyers were set to launch protests on Thursday pressing the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people.

Israeli peace pioneer Abie Nathan dies at 81

Wed, 2008/08/27 - 10:45pm

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Abie Nathan, an Israeli peace activist who blazed trails to Egypt and the Palestinians that his country would eventually follow, died on Wednesday. He was 81.

Ten Koreans killed in Philippine traffic accident

Wed, 2008/08/27 - 8:27pm

MANILA (Reuters) - Ten South Korean nationals, many of them Baptist pastors, were killed in the northern Philippines when the van in which they were travelling slammed into a concrete wall at high speed, officials said on Thursday.

Iraq says U.S. agreed troop pullout compromise

Wed, 2008/08/27 - 8:14pm

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States asked Iraq for permission to keep troops there to 2015 but compromised with Iraqi negotiators on 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.

Sudanese plane hijackers surrender in Libya

Wed, 2008/08/27 - 5:26pm

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The hijackers of a Sudanese airliner surrendered to authorities in Libya on Wednesday after releasing all the passengers and crew, Libya's aviation authority said.

U.N. official freed in Somalia but MSF closes clinic

Wed, 2008/08/27 - 4:01pm

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia on Wednesday but rising insecurity forced Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to close a clinic in Mogadishu that provided essential health care to hundreds of women and children.