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Three dead, thousands evacuated in Colorado flooding

A home and car are stranded after a flash flood in Coal Creek destroyed the bridge near Golden, Colorado September 12, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) – Rare torrential downpours unleashed flash flooding in Colorado that killed at least three people, left one missing and forced thousands to

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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during his meeting with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow September 12, 2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
White House sees ‘irony’ in Putin’s New York Times column

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin proved an important point about “American exceptionalism” when he took a shot at the concept in his column in the New York Times,

Insurgents attack U.S. consulate in west Afghanistan city: police

KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgents including a suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. consulate in the western Afghanistan city of Herat on Friday, police said, and a gun battle was under

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a ceremony where she signs into law, the bill that allocates the country's oil royalties to education and health care, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia September 9, 2013. REUTERS/Celso Junior
Brazil’s Rousseff targets internet companies after NSA spying

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Angered by reports that the U.S. government spied on her and other Brazilians, President Dilma Rousseff is pushing new legislation that would seek to force Google,

Four hurt in attack on military facility in Egypt’s Sinai: state TV

CAIRO (Reuters) – Four people were wounded on Wednesday when rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a military facility in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, state television reported. Witnesses said they heard loud

Blast damages Libyan foreign ministry building in Benghazi

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a Libyan foreign ministry building in Benghazi, local officials said on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. consulate in

Demonstrators with their heads covered by black cloth take part in a protest outside a court in New Delhi September 10, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Four guilty of Delhi gang rape to be sentenced on Friday: judge

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A judge will deliver his sentence on Friday against four men convicted of killing a woman they gang-raped and tortured on a bus in New Delhi,

A riot policeman catches fire from a molotov cocktail bomb during a protest marking the 1973 military coup in Santiago, September 8, 2013. September 11 marks the 40th anniversary of the coup d'etat in Chile that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ANNIVERSARY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX13D4I
Four men found guilty in landmark Indian gang-rape trial

NEW DELHI: Four men were found guilty on Tuesday of the rape of a woman on a bus in the Indian capital and her murder, closing a chapter on a

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) meets Alaeddin Boroujerdi (L), head of the Iranian parliamentary committee for national security and foreign policy, in Damascus September 1, 2013 in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters
Assad denies chemical weapons use; U.S. presses case for strike

WASHINGTON/LONDON: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, as the White House on Sunday pressed ahead with the uphill effort

Thai Airways Airbus 330 skids off Bangkok runway‚ 14 injured

BANGKOK: An Airbus 330-300 operated by Thai Airways skidded off the runway at Bangkok’s main international airport after the nose wheel collapsed on landing late Sunday night, injuring 14 passengers,