Timeline - Kurdish militant group PKK's three-decade war with Turkey
(Reuters) - Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on Thursday for his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters to halt hostilities with Turkish armed forces, the most significant step yet in...
View ArticleIsraeli settlement building not constructive to peace - Obama
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that settlement building in the occupied West Bank did not "advance the cause of peace", but stopped short of demanding a...
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Italy parties split as president seeks way out of stalemate
By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Italy's divided political parties remained far apart on Thursday as President Giorgio Napolitano tried to form a government after last month's deadlocked election...
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Google complainants urge EU regulators to file charges
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Eleven companies with grievances against Google urged EU antitrust regulators on Thursday to formally charge the world's No.1 search engine of anti-competitive...
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Regulator finds flaws in Deutsche Bank's Libor supervision
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German markets watchdog Bafin is set to tell Deutsche Bank of "organisational flaws" in how it supervised its contribution to the setting of inter-bank lending rates at the heart...
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Kuwait lengthens sentence of man who "insulted" emir - lawyer
KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti court has increased the prison sentence of a grocer convicted of insulting Gulf Arab emirate's ruler on Twitter to the maximum five years, his lawyer said on Thursday. A...
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EADS CEO predicts more defence industry consolidation
By Adrian Croft BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The chief executive of European aerospace firm EADS , predicted more shake-ups in the defence industry on Thursday as he painted a gloomy outlook for the sector...
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Ed Balls laments the 'national tragedy' of Vince Cable
Ed Balls issued a damning attack on Vince Cable today as he led the debate on the Budget with sexual innuendo and fiery rhetoric.
View ArticleKurdish rebel chief Ocalan dons mantle of peacemaker
By Daren Butler (Reuters) - Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan was banished to his island prison 14 years ago, narrowly escaping the gallows. Greyer and tempered by long isolation, he now braves the...
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U.S. jobless claims point to improving labour market
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits edged higher last week, but a trend reading dropped to its lowest in five years and pointed to...
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Obama urges Palestinians to return to peace talks
By Steve Holland and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama voiced opposition on Thursday to Israeli settlement building but pressed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
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Kurd rebel leader orders fighters to halt hostilities
By Ayla Jean Yackley and Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan ordered his fighters on Thursday to cease fire and withdraw from Turkish soil as a step...
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Portugal PM brushes off no confidence motion, reaffirms course
By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government dismissed as "unrealistic and lacking substance" a no-confidence motion fielded by the main opposition party, vowing to stick to budget...
View ArticleBritish government says gas demand to be met despite low storage
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said on Friday gas demand would be met despite an outage on an interconnector link to Belgium and low storage levels. "We are...
View ArticleEU antitrust regulators monitoring distribution of Apple's iPad, iPhone
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have been informed of possible anti-competitive issues related to distribution of Apple's iPhone and iPad tablets, a spokesman for the European Commission...
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Yemenis voice cynicism and hope as powerbrokers discuss reforms
By Sami Aboudi SANAA (Reuters) - For Fayez al-Absi, Yemen's most important political gathering in 50 years will never manage to end the country's political turmoil, as many of the powerbrokers...
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France, Britain sound alarm over chemical weapons in Syria
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French and British foreign ministers expressed concern on Friday over what they said was President Bashar al-Assad's willingness to use chemical weapons in the civil war in Syria....
View ArticleCentral African Republic rebels advance toward capital
BANGUI (Reuters) - Rebels in Central Africa Republic clashed with government troops in the town of Damara about 75 km (50 miles) from the capital, a government spokesman said on Friday, a day after the...
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EU regulator monitors Apple iPad and iPhone distribution
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are looking into possible anticompetitive issues involving distribution of Apple's iPhone and its iPad tablets because of what sources said...
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Berlusconi trials face delay over move to transfer hearings
ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi's appeal against a tax fraud conviction and a separate trial on sex charges will be suspended after Italy's highest appeals court agreed to consider a request to...
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