UK political pollsters told to upgrade methods to improve predictions
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s political pollsters have been told by a parliamentary committee to upgrade their methods to avoid the high-profile failures of recent years.
Revealing Duterte’s war with data, cameras and shoe leather
I met her with Reuters colleague Manny Mogato in May 2016 in a slum in Davao City, just after its long-time mayor, Rodrigo Duterte – also known as “The Punisher” – was elected president of the Philippines. Four of Alia’s sons were killed in Davao in a …
The silencing of Malta’s anti-corruption campaigner
VALLETTA (Reuters) – He ran towards the burning car barefoot across the field, oblivious to the mud and stones. The explosion had blown the grey Peugeot 108 clear off the road. Now the twisted remains sat ablaze about five meters into the field, a meta…
Britain’s Corbyn under fire over anti-Semitism in parliament
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s governing Conservative Party took aim at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday, blaming him for fuelling anti-Semitism in his opposition party by failing to tackle a culture that has led to threats against some of his lawm…
In the Sierra Maestra, Castro brothers’ revolution lives on
SANTO DOMINGO, Cuba (Reuters) – In the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains near where Fidel Castro made his hideout as he led a guerrilla uprising in the late 1950s, Cubans say they are still grateful for the land reforms and modern amenities his leftist r…
Potential jurors needed for El Chapo trial. Maybe 1,000
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge said Tuesday he planned to call 800 to 1,000 potential jurors for the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sign of how complex it will be to try drug the Mexican drug lord on trafficking and conspiracy char…
Chemical weapons experts enter site of attack in Syrian town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Global chemical weapons inspectors finally reached the Syrian town on Tuesday where a suspected poison gas attack took place, days after the United States, Britain and France launched missile strikes to punish Damascus for it.
Israel hints it could hit Iran’s ‘air force’ in Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel released details on Tuesday about what it described as an Iranian “air force” deployed in neighboring Syria, including civilian planes suspected of transferring arms, a signal that these could be attacked should tensions wi…
Bulgarian says innocent of charges that he breached U.S. embargo on Syria
SOFIA (Reuters) – When Bulgarian student Zhelyaz Andreev got a job at the Sofia office of a Miami-based company to help pay his way through university the last thing he expected was to be sucked into an international incident. He was wrong.
Study of Marco Polo’s will sheds new light on famed traveler
ROME (Reuters) – On January 9, 1324, the Venetian traveler, merchant and writer Marco Polo was preparing for his final journey – to the afterlife that he as a God-fearing Christian was certain existed.
