Japan eyes more foreign workers, stealthily challenging immigration taboo
TOKYO (Reuters) – Desperately seeking an antidote to a rapidly aging population, Japanese policymakers are exploring ways to bring in more foreign workers without calling it an “immigration policy”.
Burundi president condemns general’s killing as violence grows
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has condemned the killing of a senior army officer, who was shot along with his wife and bodyguard in an attack that also wounded their child in the central African nation’s expanding wave of de…
In European tour Obama shows support for his closest allies
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – President Barack Obama spent the past four days in Europe visiting his two oldest and closest foreign political allies, spending considerable political capital on issues close to their hearts.
U.S. Ospreys win Japanese hearts and minds with quake relief flights
IWAKUNI, Japan (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s MV-22 Osprey aircraft has been a lightning rod for opposition to U.S. bases in Japan since 24 of them were deployed on the southern island of Okinawa in 2014.
U.S. challenged China, 12 others on navigation rights last year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military conducted “freedom of navigation” operations against 13 countries last year, including several to challenge China’s claims in the South and East China seas, according to an annual Pentagon report released on Mo…
Chinese authorities hold disabled rights lawyer under house arrest
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have placed a disabled rights lawyer under house arrest and prevented a group of foreign diplomats from visiting her, she said on Monday, ratcheting up pressure weeks after the U.S. State Department gave her a br…
Obama sends more Special Forces to Syria in fight against IS
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – President Barack Obama announced on Monday the biggest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since its civil war began, but the move was unlikely to mollify Arab allies angry over Washington’s cautious approach to the co…
Brazil’s main opposition party split on joining a future Temer government
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest opposition party is divided over how strongly to back a new interim government if it succeeds in having President Dilma Rousseff stripped of office, as it eyes a run at the presidency in 2018, senior members said o…
Suspected Islamists kill Bangladeshi gay activist working for U.S. embassy
DHAKA (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the U.S. embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday, police said.
As presidency looms, ‘Duterte Harry’ tells Filipinos to make his day
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