North Korea says to boost nuclear power to counter U.S. hostile policy
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea vowed on Saturday to boost its “nuclear power” to counter Washington’s hostile policy, saying it had become apparent the United States aimed to invade the North under the guise of human rights abuses.
China offers $3 billion in aid and loans to neighbors: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has offered more than $3 billion in loans and aid to neighbors Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos to improve infrastructure and production, and to fight poverty, state media reported on Saturday.
Bomb blast in Bahraini Shi’ite village wounds three policemen
MANAMA (Reuters) – A bomb blast in a Shi’ite Muslim village in Bahrain late on Friday injured three policemen, the interior ministry said, in a further sign of anti-government sentiment since the opposition boycotted elections last month.
Italy’s Renzi wins confidence vote to pass budget in Senate
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won a confidence vote to get his tax-cutting 2015 budget through the Senate on Saturday and it is expected to be definitively approved by the lower house of parliament next week.
Cuban relatives of U.S. spy in dark after news of release
WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) – His release from a Cuban prison has been as cloak-and-dagger as his spying career ever was.
Israel bombs Gaza militant base after rocket hits southern Israel
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli aircraft bombed a Hamas militant base in the Gaza Strip on Friday for the first time since the end of a war in the territory, in response to a rocket that militants launched earlier in the day, the army said.
Israel bombs Gaza militant base after rocket hits southern Israel
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli aircraft bombed a Hamas militant base in the Gaza Strip on Friday for the first time since the end of a war in the territory, in response to a rocket that militants launched earlier in the day, the army said.
Cuba’s Raul Castro steps out of brother’s shadow with U.S. deal, support surges
HAVANA (Reuters) – Stepping out of his legendary brother’s shadow, President Raul Castro has scored a diplomatic triumph and a surge in popular support with the deal that ends decades of open hostility with the United States.
Eight Colombian police, military killed in guerrilla attacks
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist-led FARC guerrillas killed five soldiers in an ambush on Friday just hours before the rebels were to begin an indefinite ceasefire, the army said.
How Syria policy stalled under the ‘analyst in chief’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – (In Oct. 9 story, corrects paragraph 12 to clarify that size of Obama’s National Security Council staff has continued to grow, rather than “has nearly doubled”, after the White House clarified numbers it had provided to Reuters. …
