International News - Reuters

• Iran sets terms for U.S. ties

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:11:00 -0400

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has responded to U.S. President Barack Obama's offer of better relations by demanding policy changes from Washington, but the Islamic state is not closing the door to a possible thaw in ties with its old foe.

  

  

• Pakistani leaders reconcile as top judge reinstated

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:04:36 -0400

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif welcomed a call for reconciliation from President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday, a week after the government averted a political crisis by restoring the country's top judge.

  

  

• U.S. says Iraqi prisoners to be freed or charged

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:20:29 -0400

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqi prisoners being held indefinitely without charge by U.S. forces will be freed or prosecuted in Iraqi courts by the middle of this year, the U.S. commander in charge of them said on Sunday.

  

  

• U.S. military, Afghan police dispute deaths in raid

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:40:28 -0400

  KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Sunday it was deeply concerned about a U.S. military operation which killed five Afghans that police officials said were civilians, but U.S. forces insisted were militants.

  

  

• Poland hopes U.S. will not let it down on shield

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:30:11 -0400

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland said on Sunday it hoped the new U.S. administration would not abandon plans to station a missile defence system on its territory.

  

  

• Guatemala to open mass grave in search for war dead

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:55:17 -0400

  GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's biggest mass grave may give up its secrets this year when bodies from a massacre during the 1960-1996 civil war are exhumed after decades of mystery.

  

  

• Hamas leader welcomes Obama's "new language": report

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:38:58 -0400

  ROME (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is using a "new language" in relations with the Middle East and an official overture toward Hamas is only a matter of time, the Islamist group's leader Khaled Meshaal said in a newspaper interview.

  

  

• Czech government MP will push to topple government on Tues

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:02:41 -0400

  PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech ruling party deputy piled pressure onto the minority government on Sunday when he said he would try to get two party defectors to vote with the opposition to oust the center-right administration, spelling trouble for Prague's current EU presidency.

  

  

• Chinese detain Tibetan monks after riot

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:07:39 -0400

  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained almost 100 monks after hundreds of people rioted and attacked a police station in an ethnic Tibetan part of the western province of Qinghai, state media said on Sunday.

  

  

• End wars, corruption, tribalism, pope urges Africa

  Posted: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:04:34 -0400

  LUANDA (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, addressing the biggest crowd of his trip, on Sunday challenged Africans to cast aside the "clouds of evil" of wars, corruption and tribal strife and forge a new path to peace and prosperity.

  

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