Japan PM says TPP trade pact meaningless without U.S.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be meaningless without U.S. participation, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the pan-Pa…
China says 3,000 flee Myanmar after fighting along border
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is giving shelter to more than 3,000 people who have fled Myanmar after fighting between the government and rebels, and stray shells have fallen inside Chinese territory causing minor damage but no deaths, state media said on …
‘Surreal’ that Brazil’s Lula didn’t know about corruption, ex-senator says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Senator Delcídio do Amaral described as “surreal” the notion that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was not aware of a giant corruption scheme active during his tenure, in testimony on Monday marking the start of the trial against the man that ran Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
British mother whose son died for Islamic State aims to convert suffering to support
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nicola Benyahia’s teenage son slipped away one day to join the Islamic State in Syria, the frantic mother anguished over his disappearance for months while keeping it secret from her friends and most of her …
Colombia’s FARC leaders arrive in Bogota ahead of peace signing
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The leadership of Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebel group arrived in Bogota on Monday for meetings ahead of the signing of a new peace agreement with the government to end a half century of war, the insurgent group said.
After Trump and Brexit, French voting hard to call
PARIS (Reuters) – “The polls are still getting it wrong,” a friend of deeply unpopular French President Francois Hollande said cheerfully on Monday after the latest voting upset to hit pollsters.
Tensions mount as Haiti waits on re-run election results
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Election tensions spilled onto Haiti’s streets on Monday with shots fired outside the presidential palace as various candidates claimed victory in a re-run vote in the impoverished Caribbean country.
Ukraine detains two Russian soldiers near Crimean border
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukrainian security services have detained two Russian soldiers near the border with Crimea, with Ukraine saying the men were deserters from the Ukrainian army detained on Ukrainian-controlled territory and Russia saying they were sei…
Veteran Algerian jihadist’s wife arrested in Libya: officials
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Authorities in eastern Libya say they have arrested a woman believed to be the wife of veteran Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar after she traveled from southern Libya to the city of Derna to give birth.
Christian heritage found ransacked as monastery retaken from Islamic State
KHIDIR ILYAS, Iraq (Reuters) – The history pages of Iraq’s Christian community lie in charred fragments on the floor of a fourth-century monastery near Mosul which Islamic State militants ransacked during a two-year occupation that ended over the weeke…
