Losses from Chinese port explosions seen at up to $3.3 billion
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin last month could generate insurance losses of up to $3.3 billion, reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Company said in a report on Friday, nearly double what some analysts had originally thought.
After troop cuts, China military warns reforms will be hard
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military reforms will be difficult and risky as they require a fundamental change in thinking and could affect special interest groups, the armed forces official paper said on Friday following the announcement of a 300,000 t…
Putin urges investors to invest in Russia’s Far East
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – Russia is interested in both foreign and domestic investment, especially in the country’s Far East region, President Vladimir Putin told the Eastern Economic Forum on Friday.
Sinai blasts injure six peacekeepers, including four Americans: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six soldiers including four Americans were injured on Thursday in two blasts in northeast Sinai caused by improvised explosive devices, the Pentagon said.
Chinese ships headed home after Bering Sea sighting: U.S. Navy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five Chinese Navy ships sighted in the Bering Sea off Alaska during a visit to the region by U.S. President Barack Obama have begun their “return transit,” the U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer told Reuters on Thursday.
Special Report: Thai junta hits royal critics with record jail time
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Just minutes after being locked up for 30 years for insulting Thailand’s monarchy, Pongsak Sriboonpeng described what he thought was the cause of his capture: a poorly chosen Facebook friend.
Guatemala’s president quits, jailed on corruption charges
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Otto Perez resigned as president and was jailed on Thursday while a judge weighs charging him in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presid…
Father of drowned Syrian toddlers prepares to take bodies home
MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) – The distraught father of two Syrian toddlers who drowned with their mother and several other migrants as they tried to reach Greece identified their bodies on Thursday and prepared to take them back to their home town of Koban…
Migrants scuffle with Hungary police; dead toddler’s image shocks Europe
BICSKE, Hungary/MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) – Migrants forced from a train in Hungary scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks on Thursday, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of…
Chinese ships headed home after Bering Sea sighting: U.S. Navy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five Chinese Navy ships sighted in the Bering Sea off Alaska during a visit to the region by U.S. President Barack Obama have begun their “return transit,” the U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer told Reuters on Thursday.
