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Via Steve Gutterman and Annika Breidthardt MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil multi-millionaire jailed for a decade after criticizing Vladimir Putin, used to be freed by way of a presidential pardon on Friday and immediately flew to Berlin the place he hoped to be reunited along with his […]
By means of Tom Perry and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) – Hosni Mubarak’s final top minister, Ahmed Shafik, will soon be free to come from self-imposed exile and perhaps make a political comeback after Egyptian courts on Thursday acquitted him in a single corruption case and shelved some other. Shafik […]
With assistance from Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian activists and different electorate have vanished into secret detention as part of a "in style advertising campaign of terror against the civilian inhabitants" and a tactic of warfare by means of the Damascus govt, U.N. investigators mentioned on Thursday. The state-run […]
Through Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) – A $15 billion Russian assist package for Ukraine began to take shape on Thursday as Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich went public in safeguard of the deal, but offered no concessions to influence lots of protesters to leave the streets. In his first public look […]
Through Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia threw Ukraine an economic lifeline on Tuesday, agreeing to purchase $15 billion of Ukrainian debt and to scale back the price its cash-strapped neighbor pays for critical Russian fuel provides by about one-third. The deal, reached at talks in Moscow between the Russian […]
Via the usage of Darya Korsunskaya and Gleb Gorodyankin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to resume oil provides to a refinery in Ukraine, merchants said, in a sign Moscow is able to reward the usa's president for spurning a transformation care for Europe in desire of ties with its […]
Through Lesley Wroughton and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday played down stress with China over the East China Sea, pronouncing U.S. efforts to fortify maritime security in South East Asia were part of a standard course of to help allies shield themselves better. […]
With the aid of Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will improve its armed forces spending in coming years, shopping for early-warning planes, seaside-assault vehicles and troop-carrying plane, while seeking nearer ties with Asian companions to counter a more militarily assertive China. The planned 2.6 % elevate […]
By way of Omar Fahmy CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptians will vote on a new structure on January 14 and 15, pushing on with the army-backed govt's plan for transition back to democracy after its overthrow of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. The brand new file is designed to replace one […]
With the aid of Ed Cropley QUNU, South Africa (Reuters) – The body of Nelson Mandela arrived on Saturday at his ancestral residence of Qunu in South Africa's Japanese Cape, the place it was once greeted via singing, dancing local residents ahead of the anti-apartheid chief's state funeral set for […]
Via Elaine Lies and David Alexander TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Japan and Southeast Asian nations known as for freedom of the air and sea on Saturday, as China’s armed forces assertiveness raises regional tensions and after U.S. and Chinese language warships narrowly refrained from collision in the disputed South China Sea. […]
By means of Stella Mapenzauswa and David Dolan JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – World leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Cuba’s Raul Castro joined heaps of South Africans to honor Nelson Mandela on Tuesday in a memorial with a view to have fun his present for uniting enemies throughout political and […]
Combatants linked to al Qaeda kidnapped a Spanish journalist and a photographer in a rebel-held eastern Syrian metropolis in September, El Mundo newspaper pronounced on Tuesday. Journalist Javier Espinosa and photographer Ricardo Garcia were taken via rebel crew the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on September sixteen […]
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Her eyes welling with tears, Thai Top Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for anti-executive demonstrators to clear the streets and strengthen a snap election, but defiant protest leaders called for her to step down inside 24 hours. After weeks of every now […]
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – A car bomber and gunmen dressed in military uniforms attacked Yemen’s Safety Ministry compound within the capital Sanaa on Thursday morning, killing at least 20 individuals, two sources said, in probably the most worst attacks in Yemen in 18 months. Security in Yemen is […]
