China to relocate 2 million people this year in struggle to banish poverty
BEIJING (Reuters) – China, fighting to stamp out poverty, will this year move more than two million of its poorest citizens from remote, inland regions to more developed areas, an official of the cabinet, or State Council, said on Tuesday.
Brazil Senate presses on with impeachment, defying house speaker
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate forged ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff on Monday, rejecting a surprise decision by the acting speaker of the lower house, who tried to annul a key vote just days before the presid…
Obama weighs historic decision on whether to lift Vietnam arms ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is considering whether to lift a three-decade-old arms embargo on Vietnam, U.S. officials say, as he weighs calls to forge closer military ties with Hanoi against concerns over its poor human rights re…
London’s mayor an exception to proposed ban on Muslims: Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, suggested on Monday he would make an exception for London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, the New York Times …
Aleppo fighting rages as U.S., Russia try to revive Syria truce
BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo on Monday and jets conducted raids around a nearby town seized by Islamist rebels, a monitoring group said, as Syria’s military said a ceasefire in Aleppo …
Senior Islamic State official in Iraq killed in air strike: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An air strike by a U.S.-led coalition killed a senior Islamic State official in Iraq last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday.
Taiwan enters South China Sea legal fray, as group seeks to sway international court
HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines’ international court case against China’s claims in the South China Sea, pressing Taipei’s position that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as an econ…
Judge OKs U.S. extradition of Mexican drug boss ‘El Chapo’ Guzman
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican judge has ruled that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman can be extradited to face charges in the United States, the country’s federal court authority said on Monday, days after he was moved to a prison near the U.S. b…
Husband calls on Iran to release detained British-Iranian aid worker
(Reuters) – The husband of a British-Iranian aid worker who has been jailed in Iran for the past five weeks called on Iranian officials to free his wife on Monday. Richard Ratcliffe also said that Iranian officials have confiscated the passport of the couple’s 22-month-old daughter, barring the infant from leaving Iran as well.
Alleged Syrian hacker sympathetic to Damascus being sent to U.S.: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An alleged Syrian computer hacker sympathetic to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government is due to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday after extradition from Germany, a U.S. law-enforcement source sa…
