Britain defends invite to Egypt’s Sisi after Mursi death sentence
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government on Thursday defended its plan to invite Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to visit, saying it was important to engage with countries and to raise “matters of concern”.
Thailand confirms first MERS case: health ministry
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand confirmed its first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Thursday, becoming the fourth Asian country to register the deadly virus this year.
Kosovo urges Slovenia to release detained ex-PM
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s prime minister has called his Slovenian counterpart to ask for the release of a Kosovar opposition leader and former guerrilla commander detained on Wednesday on a war crimes warrant issued by Serbia.
China says willing to help drought-hit North Korea
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the government was willing to help drought-stricken North Korea, after the isolated country said it was suffering its worst drought in a century.
Afghan clerics protest nomination of first woman to Supreme Court
KABUL (Reuters) – Members of an influential Islamic panel in Afghanistan have protested against President Ashraf Ghani’s nomination of a woman to the Supreme Court, a milestone appointment in a country where the Taliban once banned women from most area…
Japan faces dilemma over plutonium stored in France
TOKYO (Reuters) – Still dealing with the huge clean up after the Fukushima crisis and debating its future use of atomic energy, Japan now faces another nuclear conundrum – what to do with 16 tonnes of its plutonium sitting in France after being reprocessed there.
Exclusive: Greece has not asked Russian finance ministry for aid – deputy minister
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Greece has not asked the Russian Finance Ministry for financial assistance and its prime minister is visiting Russia to discuss joint projects rather than to seek cash, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak s…
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting intensifies in east: Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours in fighting in separatist eastern territories despite a ceasefire, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday.
UK investigator says Chinese officials mistreated him to get GSK confession
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) – A British corporate investigator freed from a Chinese jail last week has accused officials there of deliberately withholding medical treatment to try to force him to confess to a role in a scandal involving drugmaker GlaxoSmi…
Stop playing politics with Iran’s war dead, families say: IRNA
DUBAI (Reuters) – The families of Iranian military divers killed in a 1980s war with Iraq have condemned moves to politicize a recent reburial ceremony, state news agency IRNA said on Thursday, in a likely reference to hardliners opposed to compromise …
