China’s Xi stresses military modernization in pre-new year visit
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed military modernization and technological advances during meetings with servicemen and women ahead of the Lunar New Year, state media said.
South Africa’s ANC gives Zuma 48 hours to quit, state broadcaster says
PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) gave President Jacob Zuma 48 hours to resign as head of state on Monday after an eight-hour meeting of the party’s top leadership, the SABC state broadcaster said.
Former NZ Prime Minister English to leave parliament
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Former New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English said he will resign from parliament at the end of February, months after the National Party lost office despite winning more seats than any other party in last year’s election.
Judge to rule on Assange’s bid to escape legal action in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will hear on Tuesday whether his legal bid to halt action against him for breaching bail has been successful, in a ruling that could pave the way for him to leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Trump discusses Middle East, North Korea in call with Russia’s Putin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Monday that now is the time to work toward a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, the White House said in a statement.
South Africa’s ANC gives Zuma 48 hours to quit, SABC says
PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) gave President Jacob Zuma 48 hours to resign as head of state on Monday after an eight-hour meeting of the party’s top leadership, the SABC state broadcaster said.
On U.N. deaths, Haley asks Congo’s Kabila: what happened to my list?
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Monday asked the Congolese foreign minister to deliver a message to President Joseph Kabila about the killing of two U.N. investigators: “Please ask Mr. Kabila what he did …
Russians killed in clash with U.S.-led forces in Syria, say associates
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian fighters were among those killed when U.S.-led coalition forces clashed with pro-government forces in Syria this month, former associates of the dead said on Monday.
White House dismisses idea of U.S.-Israel discussing settlement annexation
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States dismissed as false an Israeli assertion on Monday that the two countries were discussing the possibility of Israel annexing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, in a rare display of discord between U.S. …
Nigeria resumes mass trial of hundreds of Boko Haram suspects
ABUJA (Reuters) – Hundreds of people suspected of links to Boko Haram stood trial in a detention center in central Nigeria on Monday in a resumption of the country’s biggest legal investigation of the militant Islamist insurgency, authorities said.
