Kansai Electric to scrap two reactors in latest blow for Japan’s nuclear sector
TOKYO (Reuters) – Kansai Electric Power Co said on Friday it will decommission two 38-year-old reactors at its Ohi nuclear plant as Japan’s electricity industry struggles to cope with new safety standards imposed after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Peru president defeats bid to oust him by eight votes in Congress
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pulled off a surprise victory against the opposition’s bid to force him from power as a graft scandal rocks Latin America, with a motion in Congress falling eight votes short of the 87 needed to…
Japan approves record defense spending that favors U.S.-made equipment
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government approved a record military budget on Friday but did not earmark enough extra money to stop a splurge on U.S.-made ballistic missile defense kit from putting a squeeze on funding for an ambitious domestic jet fighter…
Australian PM says nine foreigners among those hurt when driver plows into crowd
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Nearly half the 19 people injured when a driver with no known extremist links plowed into pedestrians in the southern city of Melbourne were foreign nationals, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday.
Philippines’ coast guard rescues 252 passengers from capsized ferry
REAL, Philippines (Reuters) – The Philippines’ coast guard said on Friday it had rescued 252 passengers and crew, including an Australian and his Filipino wife, and recovered five dead people from a ferry that capsized east of the capital Manila.
Passengers on Saudi Arabia airlines allowed to bring electronics on flights to UK
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia announced on Friday that passengers traveling on its airlines to the United Kingdom would once again be allowed to carry on electronic devices, reversing a ban put in place earlier this year for security reasons.
Catalan separatists win election in rebuke to Spain and EU
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia’s separatists look set to regain power in the wealthy Spanish region after local elections on Thursday, deepening the nation’s political crisis in a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and European Union leaders…
Mexico prison population drops as police, prosecutors bungle cases
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s prison population has fallen by a fifth from the peak in 2014 as fewer people are locked up under a new criminal justice system, with experts saying that cases are falling apart under a higher bar for police conduct and…
The Guardian’s photographer of the year: Zohra Bensemra of Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In April, Reuters photographer Zohra Bensemra was sent to cover the drought in Somalia. Once there, she looked for ways to humanize the plight of more than 2 million people trying to survive the famine amid fields of withered crops…
Catalan separatist Puigdemont to regain control in blow to Rajoy
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia’s separatist leader Carles Puigdemont is close to regaining leadership of the region in a blow to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who sacked him two months ago, reigniting Spain’s worst political crisis in decades.
