A divided Costa Rica votes in runoff fought over gay rights
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – An Easter Sunday vote will decide whether conservative Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz can capture Costa Rica’s presidency, a result that would mark a sharp turn from the current government’s embrace of gay rights.
Senator Warren, in Beijing, says U.S. is waking up to Chinese abuses
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. policy toward China has been misdirected for decades and policymakers are now recalibrating ties, Senator Elizabeth Warren told reporters during a visit to Beijing amid heightened trade tensions between the world’s two largest …
Hotel collapse in central India kills 10, two injured
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ten people were killed and two were injured when a four-storey hotel collapsed in a crowded part of the central Indian city of Indore late on Saturday, a local police official said.
Governor of Russia’s Kemerovo region resigns after deadly shopping mall fire
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Aman Tuleyev, the governor of Russia’s Kemerovo region that suffered a fire last month that killed more than 60 people at a shopping mall, said on Sunday he was resigning from his post.
China to complete formation of new government departments by mid-April: media
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will complete by mid-April the formation of new government departments announced as part of a sweeping restructuring plan ratified by parliament, state television reported late on Saturday citing comments from Vice Premier Han…
Namibia president says China not colonizing Africa -China state media
BEIJING (Reuters) – Namibia President Hage Geingob said China is not colonizing Africa and that growing cooperation between the world’s No. 2 economy and Africa benefits both sides, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.
Anxious Hong Kong Catholics told to make leap of faith over China deal
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A looming deal between the Vatican and China is causing divisions between the church hierarchy and Catholics in Hong Kong, which has long been a vital beachhead for the faith on the southern edge of officially atheist China.
U.S., South Korea kick off annual joint military exercises after month-long delay
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States kicked off their annual joint military exercises on Sunday after they were delayed by about a month for the Winter Olympics and to help create conditions for a resumption of talks between North and So…
Venezuela arrests five police officials over deadly jail disaster
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela arrested five state police officials for their alleged role in a riot and fire that killed 68 people in an overcrowded police station cell, the country’s public prosecutor said on Saturday.
Britain and Russia lock horns as Moscow cuts UK diplomats
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow has told Britain it must cut just over 50 more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia as a standoff deepened over the poisoning of a Russian former spy and his daughter in England, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on…
