Threat of Western strikes hangs over Syria, U.S., France assail Assad at U.N.
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and its ally France assailed Syria’s Bashar al-Assad at the United Nations on Friday for using chemical weapons as the prospect of U.S.-led military action that could lead to confrontation with Russia…
Brazil retail magnate Rocha defies left in presidential race
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Angry leftist protests outside his businesses will not deter billionaire Flavio Rocha from running in Brazil’s presidential election this year, advocating a crackdown on crime, a much smaller state and conservative family values.
UK police arrest man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts
(Reuters) – British police said on Friday that they arrested a man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts in London.
Threat of U.S.-Russia clash hangs over Syria, French leader speaks to Putin
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The prospect of Western military action in Syria that could lead to confrontation with Russia hung over the Middle East on Friday but there was no clear sign a U.S.-led attack was imminent.
Nobel Prize-awarding Swedish Academy weighs reforms after controversy
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A row has erupted within the secretive committee that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature over sexual harassment allegations and alleged leaks of prize winners’ names, prompting a rare intervention in public life by Sweden’s king.
Activists call protests over raped girl and teenager in India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Activists called protests across India over the weekend, demanding justice for an eight-year-old Muslim girl who was gang-raped and murdered in the divided state of Kashmir, and another rape case involving a ruling party lawmaker….
Huge statue of Marx, a gift from China, erected at his German birthplace
TRIER, Germany (Reuters) – A massive statue of the founding father of communism was erected in his birthplace on Friday, after the southern German city of Trier decided to accept the bronze sculpture from China despite concerns over the country’s human…
French mood far from revolutionary despite lingering May ’68 spirit
PARIS (Reuters) – There’s a whiff of revolution again at the Sorbonne in Paris, 50 years on from the May 1968 student protests that mushroomed into a nationwide movement and brought France to its knees.
Catalan parliament calls for Spanish judge to be charged over jailed politician
MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s parliament called on Friday for legal charges to be brought against a Spanish Supreme Court judge for refusing to release a jailed pro-independence politician who had hoped to be elected its regional leader.
Russia spied on Skripal and daughter for at least 5 years: UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s intelligence agencies spied on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were attacked with a nerve agent in March, the national security adviser to Britain’s prime ministe…
