BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 10 Iraqi policemen and nine Sunni Islamist militants were killed in clashes on Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, the third day of the fiercest fighting since U.S. troops left Iraq in December 2011, military sources said. Gunmen launched an attack in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of [...]

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will not press charges over the prison suicide of a disgraced Mossad spy from Australia, despite a series of missteps by jail officials on the day of his death in 2010, the Justice Ministry said on Thursday. Ben Zygier, 34, received “distressing news” from his wife just hours [...]

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister-designate Enrico Letta saw "improving" chances of success as he began negotiations on Thursday to form a new government and end a nearly two-month-old stalemate in the euro zone's third-largest economy. The 46-year-old deputy head of the badly fractured center-left Democratic Party (PD), was the President Giorgio Napolitano's [...]

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea proposed formal talks on Thursday with North Korea to discuss restarting a joint factory zone located just north of the rivals' heavily armed border that was suspended in early April, sharply deepening security tensions on the peninsula. It was the first formal proposal aimed at making a [...]

By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Survivors from a building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 187 mainly women workers described hearing a deafening crack before the complex housing factories supplying Western clothes retailers crashed down in a matter of seconds. Many more were feared trapped in the rubble after the [...]