Greece agrees to buy out local units of Cypriot banks
By George Georgiopoulos and Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has agreed on a deal for the takeover of local units of stricken Cypriot banks, the two nations said on Friday, helping shield...
View ArticleIndia, Italy end stand-off with surprise deal on marines
By Ross Colvin NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Italy's surprise decision to return two marines accused of murdering two Indian fisherman followed intense negotiations over 24 hours in which Rome secured a vow...
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Ivory Coast ex-President Gbagbo's party to boycott elections
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The party of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will boycott elections in April after accusing the government of fixing the date for the polls without proper...
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Two killed in north Lebanon in third day of Syria-linked clashes
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Two people were killed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday in fighting fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, bringing the death toll in three days...
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China's glamorous new first lady an instant internet hit
By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - With a smile on her face, dressed in a simple black peacoat and carrying an elegant unbranded bag, China's new first lady, Peng Liyuan, stepped into the...
View ArticleBritish judge upholds ban on Christian group's "gay cure" advertisements
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge upheld on Friday a decision to ban a Christian group from placing adverts on London buses that suggested people could be cured of homosexuality....
View ArticleGermany warns Cyprus "playing with fire" as aid deadline looms
By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's paymaster Germany stepped up pressure on stricken Cyprus on Friday, rejecting its proposal to nationalise pension funds to plug its finance gap and demanding...
View ArticleEurogroup's Dijsselbloem says hopes for proposal from Cyprus on Friday
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Eurogroup chair Jeroen Dijsselbloem said he hoped that Cyprus's government would come up with a proposal on Friday so that negotiations on a bailout could begin. When asked by...
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China's new leader welcomes Russia's Putin as a friend
By Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping demonstrated the importance of Beijing's growing ties with Russia on Friday by going to Moscow on his first foreign...
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Pope urges dialogue with Islam, more help for the poor
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged the West on Friday to intensify dialogue with Islam and appealed to the world to do more to combat poverty and protect the environment....
View ArticleItalian president summons centre-left leader amid deadlock
ROME (Reuters) - President Giorgio Napolitano called centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani to a meeting at 5 p.m. (04:00 a.m. British time) on Friday after concluding consultations with political...
View ArticleCyprus ruling party says close to a solution on bailout crisis within EU rules
NICOSIA (Reuters) - A solution to Cyprus's bailout crisis within the framework set down by the European Union may be possible within "the next few hours", the deputy leader of the island's ruling...
View ArticleGunmen seize Israeli, Norwegian tourists in Egypt's Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) - Masked gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula kidnapped two tourists, an Israeli man and a Norwegian woman, travelling between two coastal resorts, Egyptian and Israeli officials said on...
View ArticleEU rescue may tilt Cyprus from Moscow in regional power shift
By Luke Baker BRUSSELS (Reuters) - On a hot morning in July last year, Cypriot President Demetris Christofias sat with a group of journalists on the stage of the sleekly modern National Theatre in...
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Russian judge rejects challenge against dead lawyer's trial
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court-appointed defence lawyer tried to scuttle the posthumous trial of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky on Friday, saying the state had no right to prosecute a dead man...
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Atheists say abandoned by EU in U.N. rights council
By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - Atheist groups, who say millions of non-religious people face persecution in many parts of the world, accused the European Union on Friday of failing to stand up for...
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Central African Republic rebels reach outskirts of capital
By Paul Marin Ngoupana BANGUI (Reuters) - Rebels in Central Africa Republic reached the outskirts of the capital Bangui on Friday after seizing the nearby town of Damara, rebels and military officials...
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Italy president summons Bersani for possible mandate
By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano called centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani to a meeting on Friday, suggesting he may ask the former industry minister to seek...
View ArticleU.N. investigators get another year to probe Syria abuses
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations gave its investigators another year to gather evidence of war crimes in Syria on Friday, saying they had already found horrifying first-hand...
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Vicky Pryce: PM Urged To Strip Her Of Honour
David Cameron has been urged to push for action to strip jailed Vicky Pryce of the title of Companion of the Order of the Bath.
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