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…
UK’s Cameron beats Labour’s Miliband in first TV contest before election: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron won the first TV encounter before a close national election in Britain, turning in a stronger performance than Labour leader Ed Miliband, a poll showed on Thursday.
Syria has OKed three of 33 U.N. aid access requests in 2015: official
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Syrian government has only allowed the United Nations to deliver aid to three of the 33 sites it has requested access to this year, aid chief Valerie Amos said on Thursday as she urged the U.N. Security Council to take “c…
Moroccan opposition in rare standoff with police over burial
RABAT (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of Morocco’s biggest opposition movement buried their late leader’s widow on Thursday after a standoff with security forces who tried to prevent her being laid to rest beside his grave.
Before close election, UK’s Cameron says got some things wrong, but got economy right
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday conceded he’d made mistakes during his five years in power during a special pre-election interview, but implored voters to give him a second term to finish the job of rebuilding the ec…
Co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing Germanwings jet
PARIS/SEYNE-LES-ALPES (Reuters) – A young German co-pilot barricaded himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and apparently set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself, French pro…
Yemeni leader Hadi leaves country as Saudi Arabia keeps up air strikes
SANAA/ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi left his refuge in Aden for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as Houthi rebels battled with his forces on the outskirts of the southern port city.
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.
