BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's governing coalition said on Friday Hezbollah's takeover of west Beirut was an "armed coup" aimed at bringing Syria back into the country and serving Iran's interests.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:33 -0400
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defied a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police inquiry into allegations of bribery.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 12:50:01 -0400
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket hit the BBC office in Baghdad on Friday but no one was wounded in the attack, the British broadcaster said.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 11:46:38 -0400
KABUL (Reuters) - A soldier from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan was killed during an operation in a province near the Pakistan border on Friday, the force said.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 12:35:18 -0400
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Three people were killed and a dozen were wounded on Friday in a series of explosions in southeast Turkey blamed on separatist Kurdish guerrillas, security sources told Reuters.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 08:56:26 -0400
GENEVA (Reuters) - The five major nuclear-armed powers said on Friday the Non-Proliferation Treaty was under threat and cited Iran's uranium enrichment campaign in a rare joint call for action to shore up the NPT.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 08:34:41 -0400
HARARE (Reuters) - Mediator and South African leader Thabo Mbeki held talks with President Robert Mugabe on Friday on Zimbabwe's disputed election, officials said, ahead of a possible run-off that has raised concerns of further violence.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 12:38:50 -0400
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A bomb went off inside a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka killing at least 11 people on Friday, the military said, a day before the first local elections in the region in two decades.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 12:36:55 -0400
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 25 attacks on aid workers in south Sudan's capital Juba in the past two months have forced staff to relocate and is hindering development in the region recovering from Africa's longest civil war, aid officials said on Friday.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 12:36:35 -0400
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Friday against "irresponsible ambitions" that lead to war as tanks and missile launchers rumbled over Red Square in a show of Russian fire-power not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union.  
Publ.Date : Fri, 09 May 2008 11:54:23 -0400
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