U.N.’s Ban presses for Israeli-Palestinian calm but tensions smolder
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday but after two days of discussions in the region appeared no nearer to ending weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
U.S. says concerned by police action in South African protests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department expressed concern on Wednesday over reports that South African riot police had fired stun grenades at hundreds of students protesting tuition increases.
Netanyahu Holocaust comment not backed by scholarly evidence?: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on Wednesday linking a Muslim leader to the Holocaust were not supported by scholarly evidence, the State Department said, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington…
Three years after U.S. consulate attack, Benghazi still at war
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Partly burned and still abandoned, the high-walled villas that once housed the U.S. consulate compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi now sit on a frontline of a nation at war with itself.
Pentagon says F-35 jet cost to rise if Canada, others skip orders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A decision by Canada or any other country to skip orders of 65 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets would add about $1 million to the cost of each plane purchased by the U.S. military or other partners, the head of the F-35 pro…
Argentina’s middle class doubt election will reverse nation’s decline
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – In the affluent Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where grand 19th century buildings hark back to an era of prosperity, middle class voters fear a presidential election on Sunday will do nothing to halt Argentina’s long de…
Rockets fired by Houthis kill 14 civilians in Yemen: medical sources
DUBAI (Reuters) – Fourteen civilians were killed in one of Yemen’s largest cities on Wednesday when shells fired by Houthi fighters and their allies, forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, fell on their neighborhoods, medical sources said…
Bad weather, border closures add to plight of migrants in Balkans
RIGONCI, Slovenia (Reuters) – Refugees from Asian wars crossed into Slovenia from Croatia on Wednesday as border closures elsewhere forced them to find new routes to rich European countries and concern grew over the plight of those stranded in wet, fre…
Conglomerate controlled by Iran’s supreme leader a winner from nuclear deal
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The historic nuclear deal reached between Iran and major world powers has yet to be implemented, but one clear winner has emerged: Iran’s highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Putin uses Assad visit to talk up Kremlin role as Syria broker
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremlin’s potential to help broker a political settlement to the crisis as he tried to show the West Russia has become a major player in th…
