HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police grabbed members of the opposition group "Ladies in White" by their hair, dragged them into a bus and drove them away to break up a protest march on Wednesday.
The white clothes the women traditionally wear were smeared with mud as they resisted policewomen forcing them ...More
LONDON (Reuters) - A former banker is suing his old employer, French bank Societe Generale, claiming he was dismissed for being "too successful."
Raphael Geys, who was a managing director of European fixed income sales for SocGen, said in documents for his case at London's High Court that he was ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian man charged by U.S. prosecutors two weeks ago with trying to fraudulently obtain aircraft parts from Honeywell International Inc was found dead in his New York apartment, apparently of natural causes, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Lawyer Sabrina Shroff said her client Faramarz Rafii ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Preliminary U.S. efforts to gradually retake full control of the Taliban's birthplace Kandahar are already underway, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Wednesday, offering few details.
The campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, is seen as a crucial test of ...More
TUNIS (Reuters) - A top Libyan official on Wednesday welcomed as a "step forward" a call by Swiss officials for damages to be paid to a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who was arrested in Geneva in 2008.
Relations between Libya and Switzerland broke down after Hannibal Gaddafi and his ...More
GENEVA (Reuters) - China has urged Iran to accept a nuclear fuel swap proposal to ease demands for new sanctions on Tehran, a senior Chinese diplomat said, adding that Beijing wants "every avenue" tried before considering sanctions.
China faces mounting demands from Western powers to approve a proposed United Nations resolution ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college ...More
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has increased its missile arsenal by 25 percent in the past two years to about 1,000, expanding the threat the state poses to the region, the South's defense chief said Wednesday.
Pyongyang's arsenal includes intermediate-range missiles that can hit targets at up to ...More
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court formally charged Wednesday five young Americans of plotting terrorism in the country, their lawyer said, in a case that has raised alarm over the danger posed by militants using the Internet.
The students, in their 20s and from the U.S. state of Virginia, were ...More
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan loosened monetary policy on Wednesday in a split vote that suggested the central bank would struggle in the future to meet government demands for easier monetary conditions.
The government has prodded the BOJ for weeks to ease policy, a tactic analysts say is aimed ...More
