STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Two blasts rocked the center of Stockholm Saturday night in what Sweden’s foreign minister called “a terrorist attack,” killing one person and wounding two. Reuters: World News
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Violence in north, south and east Afghanistan killed more than a dozen civilians and wounded several more as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to unveil a review of his strategy for the near decade-long war. View full post on Reuters: World News
SEOUL (Reuters) – China, pushed again by Washington to bring North Korea to heel after last week’s artillery attack on the South, told Pyongyang their relationship had withstood international “tempests.” View full post on Reuters: World News Related Blogs Related Blogs on China State-run papers from China and Russia buy convincing advertorial … ยป China, [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told CNN television Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and “strike forces” if it were shut out of a Western missile shield, adding punch to a warning from President Dmitry Medvedev. View full post on Reuters: World News
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – President Laurent Gbagbo’s party has asked the top legal body in Ivory Coast and the election commission to cancel still unpublished results from a poll it says rebels rigged for rival Alassane Ouattara. View full post on Reuters: World News
TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea could carry out shelling attacks against mainland South Korea before the year-end, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper said on Thursday, citing an unnamed source knowledgeable about the North who had spoken with a North Korean official. View full post on Reuters: World News
LONDON (Reuters) – Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange is in Britain and police know his whereabouts but have refrained so far from acting on an international warrant for his arrest, a British newspaper said on Thursday. View full post on Reuters: World News
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council committee on Wednesday blacklisted a commander in the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for ordering massacres and rapes of women and children in the country’s violent east. View full post on Reuters: World News
LONDON (Reuters) – Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures disrupted road, rail and air transport in many parts of northern Europe on Wednesday while the Mediterranean island of Cyprus suffered in the heat after its driest November in more than a century. View full post on Reuters: World News