Ivory Coast’s coalition partners to merge after elections
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – The two main parties in Ivory Coast’s ruling coalition will merge after elections later this year, aiming to consolidate support for President Alassane Ouattara, one of the party leaders said on Wednesday.
Venezuela collects three million anti-Obama signatures, foes denounce coercion
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government said on Wednesday it has collected more than three million signatures asking U.S. President Barack Obama to repeal measures declaring the South American country a security threat.
Netanyahu gets go-ahead to form Israel’s next government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, grappling with fierce White House disapproval, won consent from Israel’s president on Wednesday to try to form a new coalition government.
British government using Falklands for election gains: Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Britain’s remark that Argentina remains a threat to the disputed Falkland Islands is baseless and aimed at stirring nationalist sentiment ahead of a May general election in that country, a senior Argentine government official s…
Syrian rebels seize historic town in south: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Insurgents seized a historic town in southern Syria from the government on Wednesday, a group monitoring the war said, part of a rebel counter-attack to stop Damascus reclaiming the border zone near Israel and Jordan.
At least 12 dead in Vietnam industrial zone accident: media
HANOI (Reuters) – – At least 12 laborers were killed and more than 20 wounded on Wednesday when scaffolding collapsed at a construction project in a coastal economic zone in central Vietnam, state media reported. The workers were sub-contractors for construction of a breakwater, led by Samsung C&T Corp, a unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, at the Vung Ang economic zone in Ha Tinh province, the online newspaper Thanh Nien (Young People) said.
Italy court ruling on Amanda Knox delayed until Friday
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s highest court delayed until Friday a ruling on whether to uphold the conviction of American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
Ex-Congo child soldier apologizes at U.N. for 1990s killings
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A former child soldier from Democratic Republic of Congo told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday he was sorry for the harm he caused after he was forcefully recruited from his school by an armed group at age 12….
Moscow says new U.S. national security strategy is anti-Russian
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s federal Security Council on Wednesday criticized as “anti-Russian” the new U.S. national security strategy, which lists Moscow’s aggression in its neighboring Ukraine among most pressing threats.
Glimmers of hope in Central Africa Republic but peace elusive
YALOKE, Central African Republic/DAKAR (Reuters) – Hunted through the bush of Central African Republic by Christian militiamen, hundreds of half-starved Muslim herders found sanctuary with U.N. peacekeepers in the town of Yaloke. For almost a year, the…
