By Rania El Gamal and Khalid al-Ansary
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki edged ahead on Sunday in early results of an election Iraqis hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but the tight race indicated long and fraught negotiations to form a government.
Early results from 14 of 18 ...More
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's opposition accused the government on Sunday of being behind a fake primetime news report that Russian tanks had entered the capital at the call of the opposition, causing widespread panic.
For many Saturday night viewers, the 20-minute report on pro-government Imedi TV thrust the country back ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.
Dramatically increasing Internet speeds to 25 times the current average ...More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finance ministers from countries using the euro hope to agree on Monday on a way of providing heavily indebted Greece with financial aid, despite French and German doubts that a deal will be reached.
European policymakers are discussing how to help Greece and protect the 16-country currency zone ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - College student Ashton Eaton upstaged the top multi-event competitors when he set an indoor world record in the men's heptathlon.
Eaton, a 22-year-old student at the University of Oregon, scored 6,499 points in the seven-event competition at the NCAA championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White House adviser said on Sunday that President Barack Obama would get the votes necessary to pass a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system.
"I think we will have the votes to pass this," David Axelrod, a senior Obama aide, told CNN's "State of the ...More
SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) - A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French and Finnish ministers said on Sunday.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France remained determined to get ...More
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces arrested a senior Hamas figure on Sunday after a raid in the town of Ramallah, the seat of the West Bank-based Palestinian government, the Israeli military said.
A military statement described Maher Audi as a founder of Hamas in the West Bank and said he was ...More
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Pakistani construction worker and wounded six of his compatriots on Sunday in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, police said.
The device hit the vehicle which was carrying the group on a road close to Pakistan's consulate in the eastern part ...More
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Police in Mumbai said on Sunday they have arrested two men they say were preparing to attack several targets in the Indian financial hub, including the offices of energy firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp.
Police said they believed the men were receiving directions from Pakistan. India has ...More
