Triumphant Venezuela opposition looks to boost economy, free prisoners
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition vowed on Monday to revive the OPEC nation’s troubled economy and free jailed political activists after winning control of the legislature for the first time in 16 years of Socialist rule.
UK finance minister calls U.S. Congress’s China stance a ‘tragedy’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – British finance minister George Osborne strongly criticized the U.S. Congress’s approach to China during a visit to New York on Monday, calling its decision to oppose a greater Chinese role in the International Monetary Fund a “tra…
Israel’s Netanyahu names security aide as new Mossad spy agency chief
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named his top national security adviser Yossi Cohen on Monday to head the secretive Mossad intelligence agency.
Palestinian stabs Israeli in West Bank, shot dead: Israeli police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian man stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday and was then shot dead by security forces, Israeli police said.
U.S. agrees spy plane deployment in Singapore amid China tensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has agreed with Singapore on a first deployment of the U.S. P8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore this month, in a fresh response to China over its pursuit of territorial claims in the South China Sea.
U.S. temporarily lifts trade restrictions on Myanmar shipping hubs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is temporarily easing trade restrictions on Myanmar by allowing all shipments to go through its ports and airports for six months, an effort to boost the Southeast Asian country’s opposition party after its land…
Russia expects Iran nuclear deal to be implemented in January
VIENNA (Reuters) – Russia’s envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday he expected a historic nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to be implemented in January, leading to sanctions against Tehran being lifted.
Despite differences, optimism high as climate talks enter last lap
PARIS (Reuters) – Organizers of global climate talks in Paris sounded hopeful on Monday that they could reach a deal by the end of the week, even if there was little indication of how differences over funding in particular would be resolved.
Ukraine ‘in process’ of resuming power supplies to Crimea: Ukrenergo
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is resuming electricity supplies to Russian-annexed Crimea, a state energy official said on Monday, more than two weeks after unknown saboteurs blew up power lines to the peninsula causing widespread blackouts.
Cameroon says no missing girls among freed Boko Haram hostages
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon said on Monday that schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram last year were not among a group of 900 hostages liberated by the West African country’s army.
