China official says anti-graft drive to target government-enterprise ties: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The head of one of China’s top graft-busting agencies has said Beijing’s anti-corruption drive will clean up the relationship between government officials and enterprises, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Egypt’s Sisi to visit Washington in first week of April: newspaper
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington during the first week of April at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Sunday.
Merkel’s conservatives just ahead of Social Democrats: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – Angela Merkel’s conservatives have a slight lead over the Social Democrats (SPD) but a left-leaning alliance led by the SPD would have enough support to wrest power from the German chancellor, a poll showed six months before a federa…
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says engine test is ‘new birth’ of rocket industry
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has conducted a test of a new high-thrust engine at its Tongchang-ri rocket launch station and leader Kim Jong Un said the successful test was “a new birth” of its rocket industry, the reclusive North’s official media said…
Russia-backed Crimea chief says Putin should be president for life
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian-backed prime minister of Crimea said on Saturday that Vladimir Putin should be made president of Russia for life and that the Soviet Union would never have collapsed had Putin been in charge.
Hezbollah says U.N. ‘weak’ after critical Israel report pulled
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement denounced the United Nations on Saturday as weak after the withdrawal of a report accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” on Palestinians.
No other countries will quit EU after Britain: EU chief Juncker
BERLIN (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is not worried about other EU countries leaving the bloc after Britain because Brexit will make them see it is not a good option, he said in a newspaper interview.
Thousands flee Iraq’s Mosul as battle edges into Old City
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Thousands of Iraqis surged out of western Mosul on Saturday during a lull in heavy fighting in districts around the densely populated Old City where Iraqi forces are facing fierce resistance from Islamic State militants.
Brazil’s JBS and BRF launch PR campaign after rotten meat raids
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Meat companies JBS SA and BRF SA took out full-page advertisements in Brazilian newspapers on Saturday in efforts to burnish their image a day after police conducted a series of raids investigating bribes at meatpacking facil…
East Libyan army takes rivals’ final holdout in southwest Benghazi
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – East Libyan forces said they captured the final holdout of Islamist-led rivals in the southwest of Benghazi on Saturday, ending weeks of resistance by fighters camped in a cluster of apartment blocks.
