BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European leaders will try to breathe life into their stricken economies at a summit over dinner on Wednesday, but disagreement over the issue of mutual euro-zone bonds and whether they can alleviate two years of debt turmoil will dominate the gathering. For the first time in more than two years of debt-crisis [...]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptians queued patiently to vote on Wednesday, eager to pick their leader for the first time in a national history dating to the pharaohs, with Islamists and secular-minded rivals who served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak heading the field. With no reliable opinion polls, no one knows who will win the presidency, [...]

YANGON (Reuters) – As long-isolated Myanmar opens up, its people are flexing their newly democratic muscles and testing the boundaries of freedom in a series of protests over chronic power outages. On Tuesday evening, several hundred people in the commercial capital Yangon marched at Sule Pagoda, the focal point of demonstrations in 2007 and 1988 [...]

VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog director said on Tuesday he expected to sign a deal with Iran soon to unblock an investigation into suspected work on atom bombs, potentially brightening prospects for big-power talks with Tehran to stop a drift toward conflict. Yukiya Amano was summarizing the outcome of rare talks he conducted [...]

DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, has signed a $3 billion deal to buy 30 more Hawk jets from British defense group BAE Systems to train pilots to fly the Eurofighter Typhoon jets which it has already ordered from BAE. [ID:nL6E8F38YA] Saudi Arabia’s official news agency SPA quoted an unnamed official [...]