The $50 device that symbolizes a shift in North Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) – A $50 portable media player is providing many North Koreans a window to the outside world despite the government’s efforts to keep its people isolated – a symbol of change in one of the world’s most repressed societies.
Japan PM Abe to address joint session of Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on April 29, becoming the first Japanese leader to do so.
U.S., allies conduct air strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: task force
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies staged 29 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the latest round of daily attacks, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Thursday.
China launches ‘Sky Net’ to better coordinate graft fight
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government has unveiled an initiative called “Sky Net” to better coordinate its fight against suspected corrupt officials who have fled overseas, and to recover their dirty assets, the latest step in its fight against gr…
Eight gang members in El Salvador reported killed in shoot-out with police
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Eight gang members were killed in a confrontation with police on a coffee farm in El Salvador, police said on Thursday, the same day as hundreds of thousands of people marched around the country for an end to rising violence.
Japan makes a start on sharing lessons from nuclear crisis
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When professional boxer and model Tomomi Takano heard that children in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture were becoming unfit and overweight as the 2011 nuclear crisis there limited the time they could play outsid…
Britain’s Cameron wins first TV encounter of close election: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron won the first TV encounter of a close national election in Britain, an opinion poll showed, but opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband leveraged a rare opportunity to promote himself on a national stage.
Syria’s Assad says open to dialogue with U.S.: CBS interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is open to having a dialogue with the United States, but there can be no “pressuring of the sovereignty” of his country, he said in an excerpt of an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired on …
In first UK election TV encounter, Labour’s Miliband shrugs off ‘geek’ accusations
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband rejected criticism that his image as “a geek” made him an electoral liability for his party, saying he didn’t care what the country’s mostly right-leaning press said about him.
Pilot’s actions may add to Germanwings’ liability in mountain crash: lawyers
NEW YORK/BERLIN (Reuters) – Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings could face liabilities well above the typical ceiling in airline crashes for the passengers who died on Tuesday when one of its jets was flown into an Alpine mountain, some aviation lawyers s…
