Mattis warns that U.S. ‘will never accept a nuclear North Korea’
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that the United States would never accept a nuclear North Korea, warning that its rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programs would undermine, not strengthen, its security.
Australia appoints emergency deputy PM in citizenship crisis
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appointed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as deputy prime minister on Saturday after a citizenship crisis ousted his deputy and cost his government its parliamentary majority.
Spain arrests four former Venezuelan officials for U.S. probe
MADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) – Spanish authorities arrested a former Venezuelan deputy minister and three former executives at Venezuelan state companies for alleged links to money laundering and international corruption, Spain’s Civil Guard said on Friday…
China’s neo-Maoists welcome Xi’s new era, but say he is not the new Mao
BEIJING (Reuters) – A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China’s founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed President Xi Jinping’s “new era” of socialism and its renewed emphasis on equality.
Leftists on cusp of power as weary Icelanders go to polls
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Angry over a string of political scandals, Icelanders may usher a long dominant center-right party out of the exit door in national elections on Saturday, handing power to a charismatic center-left opposition leader.
Brazil’s Temer to shuffle cabinet in March, main ally out: source
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer will shuffle his cabinet in March and likely exclude members of his main allied party after many of its lawmakers turned against him this week, a senior government source said on Friday.
Fired Mexico prosecutor drops bid to fight dismissal
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s top prosecutor for electoral crimes on Friday said he would no longer fight his dismissal by the acting attorney general, ending a simmering dispute that had caused embarrassment to the government of President Enrique P…
Dozens of unidentified bodies found near Libyan city of Benghazi
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The bodies of 37 unidentified people have been found near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, security sources said on Friday.
Brazil’s Temer to shuffle cabinet in March at start of election year: source
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer will shuffle his cabinet in March based on a new governing coalition formed ahead of next year’s elections, a senior government sourced said on Friday.
German groups mobilize against rise of far right
BERLIN (Reuters) – German civil rights groups are mobilizing against the newly elected far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and other more hardline groups, vowing to avert the even stronger rightward lurch seen in neighboring countries.
