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• Small global warming rise would have 'alarming' impact -World Bank Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 3:59 AM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 19- Much of Bangkok could flood within the next two decades if global warming stays on its current trajectory, as sea levels rise and cyclones intensify, the World Bank said in a new report on Wednesday.

• UPDATE 1-Obama to set nuclear arms cut goal in Berlin speech Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 2:45 AM ET

  *Obama makes first trip to Berlin as U.S. president. BERLIN, June 19- President Barack Obama will unveil plans for a sharp reduction in nuclear warheads in a landmark speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday that comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy declared "Ich bin ein Berliner" in a defiant Cold War address.

• Reuters World News Highlights at 0515 GMT, Jun 19 Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 1:57 AM ET

  WASHINGTON/ KABUL- The United States and the Taliban raised hopes for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and costly war between American-led forces and the insurgents.

• U.S. says it will buy Russian helicopters for Afghan military Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | 7:46 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 17- The Pentagon said on Monday it will spend $572 million to buy 30 Russian-built military helicopters that will be used by Afghan security forces. The Pentagon said the work would be performed in Russia.

• Cash-strapped Europe pools defence, saves little so far Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | 7:55 AM ET

  ZARAGOZA, Spain, June 17- At military exercises in northern Spain, French and Spanish fighters fly alongside Swedish and Czech transport aircraft while a multinational team of mechanics changes the engine on a Belgian plane.

• AIRSHOW-Sikorsky sees good prospects in global helicopter market Sunday, 16 Jun 2013 | 4:11 PM ET

  PARIS, June 16- International orders are set to eclipse U.S. military purchases of Sikorsky Aircraft helicopters in four or five years, the company's president told Reuters ahead of the Paris air show.

• GAO rejects Beechcraft's protest of lost contract Friday, 14 Jun 2013 | 8:14 AM ET

  WICHITA, Kan.-- A federal agency has rejected Wichita- based Beechcraft's protest of the award of an Air Force contract for light air support planes to Sierra Nevada Corp. and its Brazil- based partner, Embraer. The contract for 20 planes for use in Afghanistan is worth more than $427 million.

• UN says more accountability needed on Afghanistan's Kabulbank scandal Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | 6:46 PM ET

  *Kabulbank collapsed in 2010 after $935 million stolen. UNITED NATIONS, June 13- More people must be held accountable for the 2010 collapse of Afghanistan's Kabulbank and robust action on asset recovery and financial regulation is essential to ease foreign donor worries and ensure continued aid, the United Nations said on Thursday.

• O3B wins clients with broadband plan for the "other 3 billion" Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 2:22 PM ET

  DAKAR, June 12- Satellite operator O3B Network has customers signed up for one third of the capacity on eight new satellites to be launched by September to provide high-speed Internet to emerging markets, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Google and HSBC bank are among its other investors.

• Evidence suggests GI's leaks revealed tactics Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 8:49 AM ET

  FORT MEADE, Md.-- The mountain of classified material Army Pfc. Martin Nehring, said his review of Afghanistan and Iraq battlefield reports revealed techniques for neutralizing improvised explosives, the name of an enemy target, the names of criminal suspects and troop movements.

• Ahead of the Bell: US Budget Deficit Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 6:19 AM ET

  The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the government ran a $139 billion deficit in May. The Treasury Department will report on the May deficit at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday. That's down from last year's deficit of $1.09 trillion and would be a significant improvement after four straight years of $1 trillion- plus imbalances.

• WRAPUP 1-US snooping revelations cause trouble for allies Sunday, 9 Jun 2013 | 2:04 PM ET

  Internet spying programme have raised awkward questions for allies, forced to explain whether they let Washington spy on their citizens or benefited from snooping that would be illegal at home.

• Cyber hacking to overshadow summit between Obama and China's Xi Saturday, 1 Jun 2013 | 10:23 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 1- A shirt-sleeves summit between the world's two top economic powers is shaping up as anything but relaxing, with an assertive new Chinese leadership seeking a bigger place at the global table and the United States pushing back, especially in the battle over cyberspace.

• Reuters World News Highlights at 2230 GMT, May 28 Tuesday, 28 May 2013 | 5:54 PM ET

  MOSCOW- Disputes between Russia and the West over arming warring sides in Syria on Tuesday dimmed prospects for peace talks that were also clouded by disarray among President Bashar al-Assad's political foes.

• INSIGHT-Nigeria's "war on terror" wins tentative support Sunday, 26 May 2013 | 4:06 AM ET

  *President has launched biggest offensive yet on Islamists. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 26- Nuradin Mohammed used to resent and fear the troops who swept past his fish stall in this northeast Nigerian city on the trail of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram.

• INTERVIEW-Pakistan should consider IMF deal after reforms in place-adviser Friday, 24 May 2013 | 8:45 AM ET

  *Pakistan's financing needs estimated at $6 bln- 9 bln. LAHORE, Pakistan, May 24- Pakistan's new leadership expects first results of its planned steps to shore up its finances and ease a power crisis in two or three months and only then should decide whether and on what terms to seek an IMF bailout, a senior policy adviser said on Friday.

• INSIGHT-In attacker's argot, Londoners shocked to hear one of their own Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 1:22 PM ET

  LONDON, May 23- In the lurid scene of the red-handed knifeman describing his motives for hacking to death a British soldier in broad daylight, perhaps the most chilling aspect for Londoners was the man's unmistakably familiar accent.

• UK attack spurs Muslim community soul-searching, backlash fear Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 1:03 PM ET

  LONDON, May 23- Strapping his baby into a car seat, Abu Khaled said it was unfortunate that a British soldier was hacked to death in an apparent Islamist attack a day earlier in London, but it was not the only misfortune on his mind. "Eleven children died in Afghanistan in a U.S. drone attack about the time of the Boston bombings.

• Sweden riots expose ugly side of "Nordic model" Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 10:17 AM ET

  STOCKHOLM, May 23- The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of colourful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings.

• ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 1:00 AM ET

  TUNIS, May 23- For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities.