U.S. starts deploying anti-missile system in South Korea after defiant North’s latest test
SEOUL (Reuters) – The United States started to deploy the first elements of its advanced anti-missile defense system in South Korea on Tuesday after North Korea’s test of four ballistic missiles, U.S. Pacific Command said, despite angry opposition from…
Mental health crisis among Syria’s children a living nightmare: Save the Children
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Six years of violence and bloodshed have spawned a mental health crisis among Syria’s children whose impact will be felt for decades, international charity Save the Children said on Tuesday.
North Korea rejects U.N. accusations of sanctions violations
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea on Monday rejected accusations by United Nations experts that Pyongyang is evading international sanctions with a sophisticated network of overseas companies, describing a report to the U.N. Security Council as a …
Romanian lawmaker proposes pardoning corruption jail sentences
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – A lawmaker from Romania’s ruling Social Democrats proposed extending a draft bill granting prison pardons to include corruption offences, weeks after protests forced the government to abandon plans to decriminalize some graft char…
Venezuela calls Peruvian leader ‘coward’ and ‘dog’
CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist government on Monday called Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a “coward” and “dog” servile to the United States for his antagonism to socialism.
Top French party officials ‘unanimously back’ Fillon candidacy
PARIS (Reuters) – An emergency meeting of the French conservative party’s leadership unanimously backed Francois Fillon as candidate for the presidential election, Senate leader Gerard Larcher said, despite a scandal over alleged misuse of public funds…
Yemen’s al Qaeda leader says U.S. refused to trade ‘blind sheikh’ for hostage
DUBAI (Reuters) – The leader of al Qaeda’s Yemeni wing has said the United States refused to exchange jailed Muslim cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman for a U.S. journalist who died in a failed rescue attempt in 2014, according to a recording posted on it…
Germany rejects Erdogan’s ‘absurd’ Nazi comparison, calls for calm
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany rejected as “absurd” on Monday Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s comparison of its ban on several rallies to the Nazi era, but it also stressed the importance of ties between the two NATO allies in an attempt to defuse an es…
Syrian government forces take over positions from U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria: militia spokesman
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian government forces have taken over positions from a U.S.-backed militia in the northern city of Manbij on part of a frontline with Turkish-backed rebel forces, in line with a deal brokered by Russia, the militia’s spokesman said…
Old enmity behind Poland’s push to oust EU’s Tusk
WARSAW (Reuters) – In trying to prise former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk out of one of the European Union’s top jobs, the ruling conservatives in Warsaw may have another battle in mind: the 2020 presidential election in Poland.
