China eyes closer military ties with Myanmar
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military wants to strengthen ties with neighboring Myanmar by having more exchanges and greater cooperation, a top officer told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the Southeast Asian country, state media said …
China eyes closer military ties with Myanmar
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military wants to strengthen ties with neighbouring Myanmar by having more exchanges and greater cooperation, a top officer told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the Southeast Asian country, state media said…
Syrian refugee crisis is changing women’s roles: aid agency
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Syrian refugee crisis is changing women’s traditional roles with increasing numbers becoming heads of households and the main breadwinners, an international aid agency said on Saturday ahead of a global refugee…
Cuba launches new international campaign against U.S. embargo
HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions cost Cuba $4.6 billion last financial year, the government said on Friday, and called on U.S. President Barack Obama to do more to ease the pressure in the spirit of improved relations between the two countries.
Netanyahu ‘ethnic cleansing’ comment against Palestinians draws U.S. rebuke
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said the Palestinians wanted to form a state devoid of a Jewish population and termed it “ethnic cleansing”, drawing sharp criticism from the United States.
Violent extremist groups take special aim at women, U.N. official says
SALVADOR, BRAZIL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Armed extremist and fundamentalist groups worldwide are increasingly eroding women’s rights and undermining gains made in gender equality in recent years, the head of U.N. Women said on Friday.
Informants admit lying during U.S. probe of Venezuela first lady’s nephews
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A father-son team of informants testified on Friday that they repeatedly lied to U.S. investigators in order to secretly traffic drugs, even while they were working on a narcotics probe of two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady.
Arrested French women, directed by Islamic State, planned Paris attack
PARIS (Reuters) – Three French women arrested after a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral were planning to attack a Paris railway station under the direction of Islamic State, French officials said on Friday.
Venezuelans revel in pots-and-pans protests after Maduro humiliation
MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – For over a decade, Venezuelan opposition supporters would clang pots and pans on balconies of middle-class apartments to protest late leader Hugo Chavez’s self-styled “21st century socialism.”
After Boko Haram, Nigerians return home to perilous northeast: U.N.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of Nigerians who fled Boko Haram in northeast Borno State have returned to devastated towns and villages in recent days after the army seized back the militant group’s last remaining strongholds, said the …
