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Via Daum Kim and Phil Stewart SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – South Korea mentioned on Wednesday there was "very high" probability that North Korea, engaged in weeks of threats of battle, would launch a medium-range missile at any time as a show of energy despite diplomatic efforts to soften its place. Foreign […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese police detained as a minimum 10 folks for spreading rumors in regards to the H7N9 chook flu, state media said on Wednesday, because the loss of life toll from the brand new strain of the virus rose to nine. Authorities detained the individuals in six provinces […]
By means of Jared Ferrie YANGON (Reuters) – An extremely-nationalist Buddhist creed is turning into more seen in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like motion helped stoke a wave of anti-Muslim violence within the central heartlands. Many Muslims within the city say they are dwelling in fear […]
With the aid of Justyna Pawlak and Yeganeh Torbati ALMATY (Reuters) – World powers and Iran failed again to ease their decade-previous dispute over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program in talks that ended on Saturday, prolonging a stand-off that dangers spiraling into a brand new Heart East conflict. The shortage of […]
Via Ju-min Park PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea closed get right of entry to to a joint factory zone with South Korea on Wednesday, officials stated, hanging at risk $2 billion a year in exchange that is important for an impoverished state with a huge army, nuclear ambitions […]
With the aid of Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most severe outbreak of cross-border hostilities for the reason that a ceasefire ended an eight-day struggle in November. The Israeli military mentioned two rockets fired […]
By Stuart Grudgings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Top Minister Najib Razak dissolved parliament on Wednesday, paving the way in which for a normal election expected this month which may be probably the most carefully contested his ruling coalition has confronted in its fifty six-yr rule. Najib faces a confident […]
By David Chance and Phil Stewart SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea put its missile devices on standby on Friday to assault U.S. militia bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the USA flew two nuclear-able stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a uncommon exhibit of force. North Korean […]
By means of James Mackenzie and Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) – Center-left chief Pier Luigi Bersani has failed in his attempt to be able out of Italy's political deadlock and President Giorgio Napolitano will now are searching for another resolution, the president's palace mentioned on Thursday. Bersani reported back to […]
By way of Oliver Holmes and Hamdi Istanbullu BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Fifteen Syrian students were killed when rebellion mortar shells hit a Damascus University canteen on Thursday, state-run news company SANA said, as attacks intensified within the middle of the capital. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition monitoring […]
Through Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) – Opposition campaigners from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect will meet this weekend to strengthen a democratic various to his rule and try to distance the neighborhood from wholesale affiliation with the government's makes an attempt to crush a two-12 months uprising. …
With the aid of James Mackenzie and Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) – President Giorgio Napolitano requested middle-left chief Pier Luigi Bersani on Friday to verify whether he can win sufficient beef up in Italy's divided parliament to type a government and end the political impasse left by means of elections […]
Through Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel apologized to Turkey on Friday for killing 9 Turkish electorate in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla and the 2 feuding U.S. allies agreed to normalize family members in a surprise step forward announced via U.S. President Barack Obama. The rapprochement […]
By using MacDonald Dzirutwe CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in a referendum anticipated to advise a brand new constitution that might trim presidential powers and pave the best way for an election to come to a decision whether or not Robert Mugabe extends his three-decade rule. Mugabe, […]
By way of Adrian Croft BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union's foreign policy chief urged caution on Saturday a few Franco-British drive to raise an EU palms embargo to lend a hand rebels in Syria, questioning the impact one of these step may have on attempts to reach a political […]
