China makes more military reforms, sets up graft busting unit
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military has set up 15 new units – covering everything from logistics to equipment development, political work and fighting corruption – as part of an on-going drive to modernize the world’s largest armed forces, the Defense…
North Korea seeks China help on treaty with U.S., or more tests: source
(This January 8 story corrects wording in fourth paragraph about source)
U.N. official says starvation exists in besieged Syrian towns
AMMAN (Reuters) – U.N. and relief agency workers saw starving people in two besieged Syrian areas where aid deliveries were made on Monday, a senior U.N. official said.
Freed Guantanamo detainees say they seek peace and quiet in Ghana
ACCRA (Reuters) – Two Yemenis transferred to Ghana after their release from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba said on Monday they hoped to live peacefully and rebuild their lives in the West African country.
Venezuelan court nulls congress decisions over barred lawmakers
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the new National Assembly’s decisions are void unless three banned opposition lawmakers are removed from office, deepening a power struggle over the opposition’s new legislative majorit…
Merkel under pressure as Cologne police detail assaults
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year’s Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young …
U.S. may send strategic assets, but not warheads, to South Korea
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and South Korea are discussing deploying more U.S. “strategic assets” to the region after North Korea’s atomic test last week but not restoring U.S. nuclear arms to the South, a U.S. official said on Monda…
U.N. official says starvation exists in besieged Syrian towns
AMMAN (Reuters) – U.N. and relief agency workers saw starving people in two besieged Syrian areas where aid deliveries were made on Monday, a senior U.N. official said.
U.S. aircraft bombs Islamic State cash pile in Iraq: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. aircraft bombed an Islamic State cash distribution site in Iraq on Monday, part of efforts by the American-led coalition to disrupt the militant group’s financing of its activities, the U.S. military said.
Aid convoy reaches starving Syrian town of Madaya
MADAYA, Syria (Reuters) – An aid convoy entered a besieged Syrian town on Monday where thousands have been trapped without supplies for months and people are reported to have died of starvation.
