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Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.
UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal
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.
Bomber's death fresh blow to Indonesia militants
CANBERRA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country.
Hundreds protest to demand Nigeria leader appears
ABUJA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for a march to the presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua, two weeks after he returned from a Saudi hospital.
Iran's Ahmadinejad in Afghanistan, Gates departs
KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday for a visit to Afghanistan, after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he was wary of Tehran's influence in the country.
Libya accepts U.S. apology over diplomatic row
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya accepts an apology issued by the United States over their diplomatic row and wants to develop relations in all fields, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Head of Egypt's al-Azhar dies in Saudi Arabia: report
DUBAI (Reuters) - Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday, quoting its correspondent. Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational institutions across Egypt.
Dalai Lama risks Chinese ire to back Uighurs
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama voiced his support on Wednesday for an ethnic minority in China's troubled Xinjiang province, risking worsening further his fraught relations with Beijing.
U.S. and UK patent offices plan work sharing deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. and British patent offices are working on a plan to have patent examiners in the two countries share research as a way to reduce a several-years backlog of applications, the two agencies said on Wednesday.
U.S. watchdog says Kazakhstan violating OSCE values
ALMATY (Reuters) - A U.S. media group has criticized Kazakhstan for effectively banning an opposition newspaper, saying the move violated the core values of Europe's main democracy watchdog, chaired by Kazakhstan this year.
UK's Darling to deliver Budget on March 24
LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling will present his third, and possibly final, budget statement to parliament on March 24, just weeks before a national election widely expected to take place on May 6.
Good to be impatient and strong-willed: UK's Brown
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sought to turn recent criticism of his leadership style to his advantage on Wednesday, arguing that it was good to be "impatient and strong-willed" to face times of economic turmoil.
UK proposes tougher steps on disclosing bankers' pay
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants to force banks to reveal how many of their staff get high pay packages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul Myners said on Wednesday.
UK PM Brown's speech to the City on the economy
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech at Thomson Reuters on Wednesday and answered questions on the economy.
India's Congress faces turmoil over women's bill
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party officials met on Wednesday to douse a political standoff over a contentious womens' quota bill after two of its allies quit and left the government less elbow room to pass economic legislation.
Brown would take UK back to 70s stagnation: opposition
LONDON (Reuters) - A re-elected Labour government would preside over a backwards-looking Britain saddled with risky debt and 1970s-style trade union domination, the opposition Conservatives will charge on Wednesday.
Israeli general says "all options" needed on Iran
NEW YORK (Reuters) - All options "should remain on the table" to force Iran to stop its nuclear program, Israel's top general said on Tuesday during a visit to New York.
U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: ex spy chief
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of Britain's domestic spy agency said on Tuesday.
Israel: Outlook for tough U.N. steps on Iran "grim"
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The outlook for imposing tough new U.N. sanctions on Iran is increasingly grim, as Russia and China work to slow down a U.S. and European drive for swift action, Israel's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
Greece says G20 to review financial speculation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece, pressing for curbs on financial speculation it blames for worsening the country's debt crisis, said on Tuesday the idea would be examined by the Group of 20 leading powers at their next summit.
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