Speaking at the end of his first visit to the United Sates as Greece's new leader, Papandreou said his government was not trying to "scapegoat" its problems by blaming them on market speculators. Papandreou said European leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's Neighbors must support such an agreement. Miliband's conciliatory comments, in a speech to be given in the United ...

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on three nearby Christian villages. Jos, which lies at the crossroads of Nigeria's Muslim north and ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a largely Shi'ite group ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich pushed on Wednesday for a new ruling coalition within the week to avoid snap elections and tackle a deep economic crisis. The ex-Soviet republic, battered by the economic downturn, needs a new government to adopt a delayed 2010 budget and ...

MADRID (Reuters) - One of three Spanish aid workers kidnapped by a group believed to be al Qaeda's wing in North Africa arrived back in Spain Wednesday after she was released in Mali. Looking tired and thinner than in photos taken before she was seized along with two other Spaniards in northern ...

Lars Vilks, whose sketch had shown the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog, told Reuters the death threats had been made in Internet messages following the arrests by police in Ireland of seven people in connection with the alleged murder plot. He said he had received a large number of threats ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday. The world's media focused on the Peace Prize after Obama was the unexpected choice for what ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister has extended the term of the head of the country's main intelligence agency by a year in a move expected to preserve continuity in the fight against Islamist militancy. Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, director general of the military's ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout. Ahmadinejad, who arrived as Gates was wrapping up a three-day ...