Brazil, OAS chief raise diplomatic pressure for Venezuela vote
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil and the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) called on Monday for elections to restore full democracy in Venezuela, raising diplomatic pressure on the Socialist state during its most sustained opposition protest…
Turkey’s referendum unlikely to kickstart long-stalled reforms
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s government says the passage of constitutional reforms on April 16 would make it easier to deliver on long-promised market reforms. But investors aren’t so sure, seeing the possibility of more policy gridlock and fur…
Hungary’s president signs law that could oust Soros-founded college
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s president late on Monday signed legislation on foreign universities that could force a top international school founded by U.S. financier George Soros out of the country, triggering a fresh protest in Budapest against the…
For survivors of past Syrian gassing, new attack brings back horror and despair
BEIRUT/EASTERN GHOUTA, Syria (Reuters) – It’s the dead children that still haunt Abu Ghassan, who was blinded for more than a month and paralysed for weeks by a nerve gas attack four years ago in a Damascus suburb. He recovered; 37 members of his famil…
Venezuelans mount another wave of anti-government protests
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition supporters took to the streets again on Monday in sometimes violent clashes to protest an economic crisis and an erosion of democracy under leftist President Nicolas Maduro, in the first sustained wave of anti-…
Professors clear debris at Mosul University, wrecked by IS
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Professors were among the workers who turned up on Monday to clear away rubble and prepare for a resumption of classes at the renowned University of Mosul, wrecked by the militants of Islamic State.
Silent conservatives may hold key in Turkish vote on Erdogan’s powers
RIZE, Turkey (Reuters) – On banners hung from mosques, cultural centres, construction sites and bridges, President Tayyip Erdogan’s face punctuates the landscape along the highway to his ancestral home town of Rize on Turkey’s northern Black Sea coast….
U.S. bolsters protection of forces in Syria as tensions climb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has made slight adjustments to its military activities in Syria to strengthen protection of American forces following cruise missile strikes last week on a Syrian air base that heightened tensions, U.S. official…
Warplanes drop incendiary bombs in Syria’s Idlib, Hama – activists, monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian or Russian warplanes dropped incendiary bombs on areas of Idlib and Hama provinces just days after a deadly gas attack in the region, activists and a monitoring group reported on Monday.
Russia’s Putin awards medals to buyers of Rosneft stake
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded state medals to executives with the Qatari investment fund, Swiss-based commodities trading firm Glencore and Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo, according to a decree published on Monday.
