U.S., China agree on draft North Korea sanctions resolution at U.N.: envoys
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and China have agreed on a draft resolution that would expand U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea over its latest nuclear test and hope to put it to a vote in the coming days, council diploma…
Islamist mortar attack kills four in Somali capital – police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab killed four people and injured eight others on Thursday in a mortar attack near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, police and a spokesman for the group said.
A year on from Nigerian election victory, Buhari’s reforms founder
ABUJA (Reuters) – Almost a year after winning an election on promises to fix Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari’s grand vision of reform is fading, with power centralized in his increasingly remote presidency and the bureaucracy in disarray.
EU says puzzled by Hungarian migrant referendum
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hungary’s plan to hold a referendum on EU proposals to transfer asylum seekers around the bloc may be at odds with an agreed strategy to handle the refugee crisis, the European Commission said on Thursday.
Ugandans brace for Musenveni life presidency bid
KAMPALA (Reuters) – While Ugandans spar over President Yoweri Museveni’s disputed re-election this month, a bigger battle is already looming: whether the country will change its constitution to allow him to stay in power for life.
Hungary says referendum on EU migrant quotas to affect future plans only
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s planned referendum on introducing mandatory quotas to resettle migrants in the European Union will only cover future proposals as Hungary has already challenged a previous EU quota decision in court, the foreign minister …
Deporting foreigners for breaking the law is hot issue as Swiss ready for polls
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss voters will face decisions on whether to deport foreign lawbreakers to building a second tunnel through the Gotthard mountain range when they go to the polls on Sunday.
Moderates test hardliners’ grip on power in Iran vote
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Friday’s vote for Iran’s parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the body that will pick the next supreme leader, have assumed an importance well beyond the perennial battles between hardliners entrenched in power and reformists seeking to unseat them.
Senior German official denies media report on 3.6 million refugees by 2020
BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on Thursday denied a media report which said Berlin was expecting a total influx of 3.6 million refugees by 2020.
China says ‘really needs’ South China Sea defenses in face of United States
BEIJING (Reuters) – China “really needs” its defenses in the South China Sea in the face of a militarization process being pushed by the United States, and can deploy whatever equipment it wants on its own soil, China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursda…
