Argentina’s Scioli pledges middle-class tax cut ahead of election
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s ruling party presidential candidate Daniel Scioli on Thursday promised to increase the threshold at which people start paying income tax, a move sure to be popular among middle class voters ahead of Sunday’s electio…
Ex-U.N. diplomat, others plead not guilty in U.S. bribery case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former U.N. General Assembly president, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused by U.S. authorities of engaging in a wide-ranging bribery scheme pleaded not guilty on Thursday.
Raising a pint, Xi and Cameron toast ‘golden’ ties over fish and chips
CADSDEN, England (Reuters) – After three days of pomp, deal-making and geopolitics, British Prime Minister David Cameron raised a pint to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday over a traditional pub dinner of fish and chips.
Putin says Syria’s Assad is open to working with some rebels
SOCHI, Russia/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad had told him he was ready to talk to armed opposition groups if they are genuinely committed to dialogue and to combating Islamic State.
OPEC nations plan to join U.N. climate drive
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – OPEC members Iran and Saudi Arabia, the top greenhouse gas emitters yet to submit national strategies for tackling climate change, say they will do so before a U.N. summit in December in a sign of widening participation even b…
U.S. House members push to return North Korea to terrorism list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. House of Representatives called on Thursday for the return of North Korea to Washington’s list of “state sponsors of terrorism,” subject to strict controls on trade and other restrictions.
Warplanes bomb Islamic State bastion Raqqa in eastern Syria: residents, monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, stronghold of Islamic State insurgents, on Thursday, hitting some of the group’s offices and killing at least four civilians in the vicinity, residents and a monitor group said.
After Assad audience, Russia eyes seizing diplomatic initiative on Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin believes it has taught Washington an object lesson in how to take on Islamist militants in Syria. Basking in the afterglow of Bashar al-Assad’s surprise visit to Moscow this week, it now believes it could lead the way dip…
U.S commando killed in raid to free hostages of ISIS in Iraq
WASHINGTON/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – One member of a U.S. special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first American to die in ground combat with the militant gr…
Georgian PM blasts main opposition party over sexual abuse video
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili on Thursday branded the main opposition party a “criminal organization” after the leaking of a video purporting to show sexual abuse of detainees by law enforcement officers that took plac…
