Elderly Castro holds onto Cuba’s top job in changing times
HAVANA (Reuters) – President Raul Castro will serve up to five more years as head of Cuba’s Communist Party as he and other aging revolutionaries keep their grip on power at a time of economic reform and detente with the United States.
Senior U.S. lawmakers want India PM Modi to address U.S. Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee called on Tuesday for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint meeting of Congress during a visit to Washington in June.
U.S. military plane crash last year caused by goggles case: Air Force
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The incorrect placement of a night vision goggles case caused a U.S. military transport plane to crash in Afghanistan in October, killing 14 people, the U.S. Air Force said in a report.
China should confirm no plans for military planes in Spratlys: U.S.
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Tuesday called on China to reaffirm it has no plans to deploy military aircraft in the Spratly Islands after Beijing used a military plane to evacuate sick workers from a new airstrip on an island it has c…
U.S. welcomes Azerbaijan decision to allow activist to travel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States welcomed on Tuesday a decision by Azerbaijan to allow human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her husband, Arif Yunus, a historian, to leave the country for urgent medical purposes.
Afghan Taliban kill at least 28 in major attack in central Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomb and gun assault on a government security building during Tuesday morning rush hour in central Kabul killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, in the deadliest single attack in the Afghan capital since…
Italian Senate rejects no-confidence motions against PM Renzi
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday defeated two parliamentary no-confidence motions tabled by opposition parties that accuse his government of conflicts of interest and bowing to industrial and banking lobbies.
Swedish Brussels bombing suspect also seen involved in Paris attacks: paper
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Swede who is a suspect in March’s Brussels metro bombing is now also under suspicion for playing a role in the Paris attacks last November, Belgian newspaper De Standaard said on Tuesday.
Thousands rally to call for release of Israeli soldier who shot Palestinian assailant
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Thousands of Israelis rallied in a central Tel Aviv square on Tuesday calling for the release of a soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant.
EU has interfered too much in people’s lives, Juncker says ahead of Brexit vote
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Growing euroscepticism in the EU is partly due to too much interference from Brussels in ordinary people’s lives, which needs to be toned down, the head of the European Commission said on Tuesday.
