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Reuters: World News
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Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit. 
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Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on three nearby Christian villages. 
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UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal
LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbors must support such an agreement. 
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Chavez trusts God and nature in power crisis
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez is confident that God and nature will pull Venezuela out of a power crisis battering both the economy and his popularity. 
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Bomber's death fresh blow to Indonesia militants
CANBERRA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country. 
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Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout. 
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Gunmen kill 6 in Western aid agency raid in Pakistan
OGHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a U.S.-based, Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up the building. 
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Libya accepts U.S. apology over diplomatic row
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya signaled the end of a diplomatic row with the United States Wednesday, saying it accepted an apology for acerbic comments made by a U.S. official and wanted to deepen relations in all areas. 
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Head of Egypt's al-Azhar dies in Saudi Arabia: report
DUBAI (Reuters) - Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday, quoting its correspondent. Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational institutions across Egypt. 
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Dalai Lama risks Chinese ire to back Uighurs
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, voiced his support on Wednesday for an ethnic minority in China's troubled Xinjiang province, risking further worsening his fraught relations with Beijing. 
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