Atomic bomb survivors: Obama apology nice, but priority is disarmament
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese atomic bomb survivors say an apology from President Barack Obama for the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima would be welcome, but their priority is on ridding the world of all nuclear weapons forever.
Incoming Taiwan government likely to infuriate China from the word go
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s new ruling party is set for an early clash with China over the first major item on its legislative agenda – a bill that could paralyze trade between the two rivals and which Beijing has already condemned.
Congo’s president shows would-be successor who is in charge
KINSHASA (Reuters) – “You won’t scare us!” was how the Congolese leadership responded this week to Western threats of sanctions unless President Joseph Kabila ends his 15 years in power by holding an election on schedule in November.
India’s ruling BJP wins power in northeast, expands influence
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party declared victory on Thursday in the northeastern state of Assam, an election boost that will help his right-wing nationalist government rebuild some momentum after poll losses las…
Australian PM faces fallout over minister’s ‘xenophobic’ refugee claim
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in the midst of a tight election campaign, came under fire on Thursday for backing his immigration minister over claims resettling “illiterate and innumerate” refugees would strain the soci…
Rescued from child labor, Indian fishermen’s daughters ace school exams
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded labor when she was 11, Shalini has just graduated from high school in the southern…
China rethinks its sporting obsession as Rio Olympics approach
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Change is unfolding at Shanghai’s No.1 Children’s Sports School Pudong New Area, a small cog in a state-run machine that has churned out Chinese Olympic champions for three and a half decades.
Aide of Peru’s Fujimori steps down after money laundering report
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced on Wednesday that a senior aide had resigned from her center-right party in a bid to calm an uproar following media reports that linked the two to money laundering.
Chinese, Germans the most welcoming of refugees, Russians the least: survey
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – China is the most welcoming country when it comes to refugees, according to a new survey of citizens’ attitudes published on Thursday, with Germany ranking second and Britain third.
Canada wildfire evacuees get tentative return date
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Evacuees who fled a wildfire in northern Alberta two weeks ago may be allowed to return home as soon as June 1, officials said on Wednesday, as the massive blaze kept oil production shuttered north of Fort McMurray.
