Honduran election crisis festers as rivals claim victory
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Four days after voting in a presidential election, Honduras sank deeper into crisis on Thursday, with no clear winner in sight and the vote count disputed by the U.S.-friendly incumbent’s centrist rival, a television game show h…
U.S. military says no civilians killed in August Somalia raid
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The U.S. military did not kill any civilians when it accompanied Somali forces on a deadly raid in August, U.S. Africa command said late on Wednesday, the first public statement on the findings from an investigation into the raid.
Russia’s Lavrov: little difference between policies of Trump and Obama – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The actions of U.S. President Donald Trump’s team are similar to the policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview, state-run RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
Stranded tourists depart Bali as volcanic ash cloud shifts
KARANGASEM, Indonesia (Reuters) – Airlines laid on extra flights to Bali on Thursday to allow some of the thousands of passengers stranded by the eruption of Mount Agung to fly out, as a switch in wind direction sent volcanic ash away from the holiday …
EU says needs concrete evidence from Turkey to deem Gulen network as terrorist
ANKARA (Reuters) – The European Union does not share Turkey’s view that the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is a terrorist organization and would need to see “substantive” evidence to change its stance, the EU’s counter-terrorism co…
Election crisis engulfs Honduras with rivals neck-and-neck
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras faced a growing election crisis on Wednesday, with its U.S.-friendly president edging ahead in troubled vote count that his centrist rival, a television game show host allied with leftists, has rejected, saying he is be…
Japan emperor to cede public duties after abdication: prince
TOKYO (Reuters) – Emperor Akihito’s younger son, Prince Akishino, has said he expects his father to hand over all his public duties to the royal heir, Crown Prince Naruhito, after his planned abdication – the first by a Japanese monarch in nearly two c…
Honduran opposition candidate rejects official election count
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Salvador Nasralla, the Honduran opposition candidate whose early lead against President Juan Orlando Hernandez in a presidential election has evaporated, on Wednesday said he rejected the vote count of the electoral tribunal.
Argentine court sentences 29 to life for dictatorship crimes
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina sentenced 29 people, some with nicknames like “Blond Angel of Death” and “The Tiger,” to life sentences on Wednesday in a trial involving some 800 cases of kidnapping, torture and murder during the 1976-1983 dictators…
U.S. warns North Korean leadership will be ‘utterly destroyed’ in case of war
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States warned North Korea’s leadership it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out after Pyongyang test fired its most advanced missile, putting the U.S. mainland within range, in violation of U….
