Senior Chinese leader says Vietnam ties need ‘correct path’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants relations with Vietnam to proceed along a “correct path”, a visiting senior Chinese leader said, vowing to improve mutual trust, amid tension between the neighbors over competing claims in the South China Sea.
Prosecutors won’t indict former Tepco executives over Fukushima disaster: media
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese prosecutors will likely decide again not to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power Co executives over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, media reported on Friday, but a rarely used citizen’s panel could …
Record numbers evacuated in Malaysia’s worst floods in decades
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authorities in five northern states of Malaysia hit by the Southeast Asian’ nation’s worst monsoon floods in decades.
Veteran politician Evans Paul nominated for prime minister of Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Former Port-au-Prince mayor and veteran politician Evans Paul was nominated as prime minister by President Michel Martelly on Thursday in the latest attempt to resolve a political crisis over long-delayed elections in Haiti.
Sudan expels two senior U.N. officials; U.N. says move ‘unacceptable’
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, the world body said on Thursday, in what appeared to be an escalation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s move against U.N. activities in the country.
Colombia’s FARC rebels to free kidnapped soldier in peace gesture
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels will soon free a soldier captured last week during an ambush of a military patrol in which they killed five of his colleagues, according to an online statement Thursday.
Asia remembers devastating 2004 tsunami with prayers, memorial services
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Survivors of Asia’s 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 victims gather along shorelines of the Indian Ocean on Friday for prayers and memorial services to mark the 10th anniversary of a disaster that still leaves…
Rocket hits storage tank at Libya’s biggest oil port
BENGHAZI/TUNIS, Libya (Reuters) – A rocket set a storage tank at the eastern Libyan oil of port Es Sider on fire as armed factions allied to competing governments fought for control of the country’s biggest export terminal, officials from both sides sa…
Islamist gunmen attack African Union base in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Eight Islamist gunmen infiltrated the main African Union (AU) base in Mogadishu on Thursday and killed three peacekeepers and a civilian contractor, the AU mission in Somalia said.
Firebomb attack wounds Israeli father and daughter in West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A firebomb attack on a car in the occupied West Bank left an 11-year-old Israeli girl severely burned and her father injured on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
