... * U.S. considers air strikes in Iraq. * Iraqi oil exports remain unaffected as govt tightens security. * Iran, world powers to meet in Vienna for nuclear talks. By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen. SINGAPORE, June 17 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures held near $113 per ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Iranian officials discussed Iraq on the sidelines of separate negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program in Vienna, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, ...

RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces searching for three teenagers believed to have been kidnapped swept into a second West Bank city on Monday, touching off street confrontations in which they killed a Palestinian, witnesses and hospital ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Forward Enner Valencia headed Ecuador into a 1-0 halftime lead against Switzerland in their World Cup Group E clash on Sunday. Valencia was left unmarked on 22 minutes to head Walter Ayovi's pinpoint freekick past Diego Benaglio ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Forward Enner Valencia headed Ecuador into a 1-0 halftime lead against Switzerland in their World Cup Group E clash on Sunday. Valencia was left unmarked on 22 minutes to head Walter Ayovi's pinpoint freekick past Diego Benaglio ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Forward Enner Valencia headed Ecuador into a 1-0 halftime lead against Switzerland in their World Cup Group E clash on Sunday. Valencia was left unmarked on 22 minutes to head Walter Ayovi's pinpoint freekick past Diego Benaglio ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Forward Enner Valencia headed Ecuador into a 1-0 halftime lead against Switzerland in their World Cup Group E clash on Sunday. Valencia was left unmarked on 22 minutes to head Walter Ayovi's pinpoint freekick past Diego Benaglio ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Forward Enner Valencia headed Ecuador into a 1-0 halftime lead against Switzerland in their World Cup Group E clash on Sunday. Valencia was left unmarked on 22 minutes to head Walter Ayovi's pinpoint freekick past Diego Benaglio ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Forward Enner Valencia headed Ecuador into a 1-0 halftime lead against Switzerland in their World Cup Group E clash on Sunday. Valencia was left unmarked on 22 minutes to head Walter Ayovi's pinpoint freekick past Diego Benaglio ...

PINEHURST North Carolina (Reuters) - Martin Kaymer rebounded after making three early bogeys on a difficult day for scoring to lead the U.S. Open by five shots midway through the third round on Saturday. The 29-year-old German, a commanding six ...

BAGHDAD/RAMADI, Iraq, June 7 (Reuters) - By Kareem Raheem and Kamal Naama. A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical ...

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - On the first anniversary of nationwide protests that shook Prime Minster Tayyip Erdogan's rule, barely a thousand anti-government demonstrators marched in Istanbul on Saturday. Outnumbered by riot police, they were soon ...

... * Thin Treasury yields seen as drag on dollar. * Traders look beyond worse than forecast GDP data. * Aussie jumps on brighter business-spending outlook (Adds late prices and comments). By Michael Connor. NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) - The dollar ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) jetliner suffered a further setback on Thursday after Australian officials said wreckage from the aircraft was not on the seabed in the area they had identified. Flight MH370, carrying ...

BEIJING May 28 (Reuters) - China will boost funding to regions that do well in reining in air pollution and punish laggards, the cabinet has decided, as Beijing pushes local governments to step up the war on smog. The fight on crippling pollution that ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Tuareg separatist groups in Mali on Friday accepted a ceasefire agreement with the government following clashes this week that threatened to plunged the country back into war. The agreement was reached following a meeting between ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence minister has told troops to return to their permanent bases after military exercises near the border with Ukraine, fulfilling an order from President Vladimir Putin, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. The Kremlin ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence minister has told troops to return to their permanent bases after military exercises near the border with Ukraine, fulfilling an order from President Vladimir Putin, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. The Kremlin ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse on Monday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis told U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday that the world body must do more to help the poor and should encourage the "legitimate redistribution" of wealth. Francis, who since his election last year has often ...