Angry Chinese families seek answers about missing Malaysian plane
KUALA LUMPUR/BEIJING (Reuters) – Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a Malaysia Airlines plane missing for more than a year clashed with police in Beijing on Friday as French officials extended the search for debris on remote Indian Ocean isla…
Privileges threatened, days may be numbered for Greece’s ‘everyman’ farmers
NAXOS, Greece (Reuters) – A jovial potato farmer whose family has tilled the fertile land on the island of Naxos for over 200 years, Stelios Vathrokilis is unfazed by all that he believes a farmer must inevitably face: God, inclement weather and natura…
Truck bomb in Kabul kills eight, wounds hundreds
KABUL (Reuters) – A truck bomb exploded near an army compound in the center of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding hundreds, police and health ministry officials said.
Turning back the clock: North Korea creates Pyongyang Standard Time
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is creating its own time zone, moving its clocks back by 30 minutes to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule, the official KCNA news agency said on Friday.
Argentina’s Scioli woos swing voters before presidential primaries
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Daniel Scioli, the presidential candidate for Argentina’s ruling party, on Thursday urged undecided voters to back him in this weekend’s party primaries in a speech designed to reassure the party’s socialist faithful while wooi…
Allies of Brazil’s Rousseff see leadership vacuum as economy sinks
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Allies of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff have begun talking with her opponents about filling what they see as a leadership vacuum and her inability to pull the country out of an economic tailspin, party insiders said on Thursday…
China accuses Manila, Tokyo of joining forces over South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) – Japan and the Philippines teamed up at a regional security forum this week to attack China over the disputed South China Sea, China’s Foreign Ministry said, detailing the feisty defense its foreign minister mounted in return.
French hostage freed in Yemen, president’s office says
PARIS (Reuters) – A French woman who was abducted in Yemen in February has been freed, the French president’s office said in a statement early on Friday, adding that she would come back to France in the coming hours.
Truck bomb in central Kabul kills eight, wounds over 100
KABUL (Reuters) – A powerful truck bomb tore through the center of the Afghan capital early on Friday morning, killing at least eight people and wounding over a hundred, police and health ministry officials said.
Allies of Brazil’s Rousseff see leadership vacuum as economy sinks
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Allies of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff have turned to her opponents to talk about filling what they see as a damaging leadership vacuum after losing confidence in her ability to pull the country out of an economic tailspin, pa…
