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A Salvadoran looks at a car damaged by heavy rains in San Salvador November 8, 2009. REUTERS/William Bonilla

Hurricane Ida aims for Gulf of Mexico oil fields

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida roared toward the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, where important oil fields are located, after killing 91 people and leaving at least another 60 missing in floods a… more
Abbas al-Bayati (C), a Turkmen member of the Iraqi parliament, speaks to the media after voting on an election law at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad November 8, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

Iraq passes election law paving way for January poll

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi lawmakers passed a long-delayed election law on Sunday to pave the way for a January poll, after parliament sidestepped a potentially explosive row over the oil-producing cit… more
A man is reflected in a marble plate of a monument with the names of some 20,000 victims of the communist rule during an open air mass in central Sofia in this September 9, 2005 file photo. Twenty years after the fall of communism, nostalgia for the past is growing in the small Balkan country and across the former Soviet bloc. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/Files

SPECIAL REPORT: In eastern Europe, people pine for socialism

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
BELENE, Bulgaria (Reuters) - In the dense forests of the idyllic Danube island of Persin, home to the endangered sea eagle and the pygmy cormorant, lie the ghastly remains of a communist-era death cam… more

Iran's Karoubi attacks Ahmadinejad on U.S. policy

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi, whose supporters clashed with police in a rally last week, a… more

Indonesia says no casualties in 6.7 magnitude quake

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey reported early on… more

Market attack in Pakistan kills at least 12

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack ne… more

Iraqi lawmakers pass election law

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament Sunday passed a long-delayed election law paving the way for a national vote in Ja… more

Abbas supporters in West Bank urge him not to quit

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Supporters of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas turned out in the West Bank on Sunday to… more

Somalia sees end to Spanish hostage crisis in 3 weeks

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's government expects a settlement in about three weeks with pirates holding hostage 36 cre… more

Thousands in West Bank urge Abbas not to quit

Sun Nov 08, 12:00 AM
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians turned out in the West Bank Sunday to urge Mahmoud Abbas to run … more
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