UK support for EU membership eases despite Obama’s backing: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – British support for staying in the European Union has fallen by two percentage points to 51 percent according to a poll, a decline that may suggest U.S. President Barack Obama’s words in favor of UK membership had yet to have an impa…
Syrian food crisis deepens as war chokes farming
ABU DHABI/HASAKA, Syria (Reuters) – Syria’s war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys their crops, deepening a humanitarian crisis in a country struggling to produce enough gr…
Australia’s asylum seeker detentions on PNG island ruled illegal
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Australia’s practice of detaining asylum seekers on PNG’s northern Manus Island was illegal and must stop.
Nagorno-Karabakh says two soldiers killed by Azeri gunfire
YEREVAN (Reuters) – The breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh said two of its soldiers were killed by gunfire from Azerbaijan early on Tuesday, as tensions simmered weeks after an eruption of clashes.
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…
