Reuters: International News

North Korea defies U.S. with new missile launches

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:01:30 -0400

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.

OAS set to suspend Honduras as it renounces charter

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:49:39 -0400

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Organization of American States prepared to suspend Honduras on Saturday after a caretaker government refused to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and defiantly renounced the OAS charter in an apparent preemptive move.

U.N.'s Ban denied Suu Kyi meeting

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:47:28 -0400

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was "deeply disappointed" that military-ruled Myanmar's top general had rejected his request to meet with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Hardline Iran editor calls for Mousavi to face trial

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:42:21 -0400

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran's top authority said Saturday defeated election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi and a former pro-reform president had committed "terrible crimes" which should be tried in court.

Two U.S. soldiers killed in complex Afghan attack

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:58:35 -0400

KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a complex attack on a base in southeast Afghanistan that ended with air strikes Saturday, the U.S. military said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south.

Iraqi army arrest suspect in Kirkuk vehicle bombs

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:11:50 -0400

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi army forces arrested a man on Saturday suspected of being behind two vehicle bombs in the northern city of Kirkuk that killed more than 100 people, an Iraqi army official said.

Pakistani forces attack militants near crash site

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:05:17 -0400

KALLAY, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban militants on Saturday in a northwestern region where a military helicopter crashed the previous day killing 26 soldiers on board, a government official said.

Heavy rain in southern China forces 150,000 to flee

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:45:00 -0400

BEIJING (Reuters) - Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

Bangladesh floods maroon thousands, landslides kill 6

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:16:33 -0400

DHAKA (Reuters) - Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.

Sudan police search for kidnapped aid workers

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:45:01 -0400

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security services were searching Saturday for two kidnapped female aid workers, one Ugandan and one Irish, taken from their compound in Darfur, the women's employer said.