Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets
Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...
In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
Report by Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24pm EST (Reuters) – John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. election, but More...
School murders silence “cliff” rhetoric as deadline nears
Report by Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:12pm EST (Reuters) – Mass murder in Connecticut silenced “fiscal cliff” talk on Saturday as the White House and Congress More...
U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad
Report by Oliver Holmes, BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:14pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad’s future to More...
Fed ties rates to jobs recovery, adds to stimulus
Report by Pedro da Costa and Alister Bull, WASHINGTON | Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:48pm EST (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve, announcing a new round of monetary stimulus, took the unprecedented step on Wednesday More...
Analysis: Mortgage break no longer sacred as U.S. tightens tax belt
Report by Margaret Chadbourn, WASHINGTON | Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:28pm EST (Reuters) – The U.S. tax code has many politically sacrosanct tax breaks and few rank higher than the deduction for home mortgage interest. For More...
In Syrian sanctions, some gains but much uncertainty
Two months into anti-government protests in Syria last year, as the military crackdown grew more vicious, the European Union and United States introduced sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad, his security More...
Training for the next Libya, Marine teams wary of budget cuts
(Reuters) – Shells fly and firing range instructors yell at the young Marines who are in their second day of security forces training at the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp that straddles the border between More...
First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82
U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday. File photo of Neil Armstrong testifying More...
Fire blazes at California refinery; residents ordered indoors
A fire struck the core of Chevron Corp’s large Richmond, California, refinery on Monday evening, sending flames and a column of smoke into the air and prompting authorities to order nearby residents indoors. Plume More...
