South Korea agonizes over latest tragedy as it probes hospital blaze
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean officials rushed to identify 37 victims of a hospital fire and pinpoint the cause of the worst blaze in years on Saturday as opposition politicians blamed the president for failing to avoid the latest in a series of trage…
Detained Saudi billionaire Alwaleed says he expects to be released in days
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained in the kingdom’s sweeping crackdown on corruption, said on Saturday that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be released from custody within days.
Syrian opposition says will boycott Russia-brokered peace talks in Sochi
VIENNA (Reuters) – The Syrian opposition will not attend a peace conference Russia is hosting next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, dismissing the meeting as an attempt by the Syrian government’s close ally to “sideline” the current United Nations p…
Venezuela opposition condemns action on presidential election
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders on Friday condemned the sidelining of their coalition from upcoming presidential elections, saying it was trickery by President Nicolas Maduro’s administration to rig the vote in its favor.
U.S.’s Mattis: Diplomacy should impose reason on North Korea’s Kim
U.S. PACIFIC COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Hawaii (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis stressed diplomacy as the way to deal with the North Korean crisis on Friday during talks with his South Korean counterpart in Hawaii, a day after Seoul’s top diplo…
Exclusive: Detained Saudi billionaire Alwaleed says he expects to be released in days
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained in the kingdom’s sweeping crackdown on corruption, said on Saturday that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be released from custody within days.
Pro-Russian president, academic challenger face off in dead-heat Czech presidential vote
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czechs finish voting on Saturday in a presidential election run-off where pro-western academic Jiri Drahos is trying to oust incumbent Milos Zeman, whose courting of Russia and China and leaning toward far-right groups have split the…
Syrian opposition will not attend Sochi peace talks: spokesman
VIENNA (Reuters) – The Syrian opposition will not attend a peace conference that Russia is hosting in Sochi next week, a spokesman for the opposition delegation to U.N.-brokered peace talks in Vienna said on Saturday.
Despite clash, Richardson says Suu Kyi remains Myanmar’s best hope
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aung San Suu Kyi remains Myanmar’s best hope for change, veteran U.S. mediator Bill Richardson said on Friday, days after he got into a fight with the Nobel laureate and quit an international panel advising her government …
Brazil’s Lula appeals decision to seize his passport
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Lawyers for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday appealed a decision to seize the former president’s passport, on the heels of an appeals court ruling upholding his corruption conviction.
