Power vacuum weighs on South Korea as Park fights for survival
SEOUL (Reuters) – As the chorus grows louder for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to resign over a corruption scandal, a power vacuum is weighing on her administration, leaving her political survival in doubt and its vulnerable economy exposed to p…
New Zealand foreign minister discusses South China Sea with ‘charming’ Duterte
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s foreign minister Murray McCully said he discussed the disputed South China Sea with a “charming” Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte during an informal meeting.
Colombia, FARC rebels to sign new peace deal on Thursday
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A new peace accord between Colombia’s government and Marxist FARC rebels will be signed on Thursday and sent to Congress for approval, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday, bringing a formal end to the 52-year civil war ever …
Civilian victims of mortar, sniper fire pour into Mosul clinic
KOKJALI, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi military medics rushed a man whose mouth had been blown apart by mortar shrapnel into their temporary field clinic on the eastern edges of Mosul.
I am no ‘medieval reactionary’, says France’s Fillon
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s frontrunner for the conservative ticket in next spring’s presidential election hit back on Tuesday after a personal attack from his rival, heralding a hard-fought final week of campaigning before the primary run-off this week…
Dubai drops case against UK woman charged over her own rape: advocates
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Charges against a British woman arrested in Dubai after reporting her own rape have been dropped, rights advocates said on Tuesday, bringing to a close a case that raised questions about the Gulf State’s judicial…
Israel accuses Iran of sending Hezbollah arms on commercial flights
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of using commercial airline flights to ship weapons to the Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah.
Pentagon says air strike killed ‘senior al Qaeda leader’ in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An air strike carried out by the United States last week killed Abu Afghan Al-Masri, a “senior al Qaeda leader,” near Sarmada, Syria, on Nov. 18, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said on Tuesday.
New U.N. chief says politicians are failing ‘losers of globalization’
LISBON (Reuters) – The incoming head of the United Nations warned on Tuesday that rich countries were ignoring the “losers of globalization” by turning to nationalist agendas, as in the U.S. election and Brexit referendum.
Exclusive: Russian tankers defy EU ban to smuggle jet fuel to Syria – sources
LONDON (Reuters) – Russian tankers have smuggled jet fuel to Syria through EU waters, bolstering military supplies to a war-torn country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes in support of the government, according to sources with knowledge of the m…
