Hollande’s pro-business reforms could falter ahead of France’s 2017 election
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande’s surprise conversion to business-friendly economic reforms 18 months after winning power on a “tax the rich” platform is at risk of running out of steam ahead of elections next year.
Search for missing Malaysian jet finds second 19th Century shipwreck
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Indian Ocean has turned up the second centuries-old shipwreck but no sign of the aircraft which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew nearly two years ago, searchers said on …
Antarctic helicopter pilot dies after falling into a crevasse
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A Canadian helicopter pilot has died after falling into a crevasse on a remote ice shelf in Antarctica while refueling a depot, the Australian Antarctic Division said on Wednesday.
Some China tourists eager to see free-wheeling democracy in action in Taiwan
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The number of mainland Chinese tourists to neighboring Taiwan halved in the weeks before this weekend’s elections, several Taipei-based travel agencies said, as Communist Party rulers in Beijing discouraged visits to China’s diplomat…
No concrete clues of ‘attack targets’ in Germany after Istanbul bomb: minister
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday that the security situation in Germany had not changed after a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, mainly German tourists, in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Iran central bank takes Beirut bombing case to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration, often at odds over Iran policy, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let the families of Americans killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barrack…
United States criticizes St Lucia over alleged extra-judicial deaths
CASTRIES, ST. LUCIA (Reuters) – The United States criticized the government of the Caribbean island nation St Lucia on Tuesday for failing to prosecute police accused of keeping death-lists and killing suspected criminals during a misguided campaign to…
Blast close to foreign consulates in Jalalabad in Afghanistan: witnesses
KABUL (Reuters) – An explosion was heard in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday close to foreign consulates including those of India, Pakistan and Iran, witnesses told Reuters.
First group of stranded Cuban migrants leaves Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – A first group of 180 Cubans chosen from thousands stranded in Costa Rica boarded a flight to El Salvador on Tuesday as part of a pilot program agreed by Central America countries last year to allow the migrants to conti…
Iran holds 10 American sailors; U.S. expects their prompt return
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran detained 10 U.S. sailors aboard two U.S. Navy boats in the Gulf on Tuesday in an incident that rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord with Tehran.
