U.S. warns Macedonia not to muzzle media in ‘coup’ scandal
SKOPJE (Reuters) – The United States cautioned Macedonia on Friday against silencing the media in a growing scandal over coup charges against the government’s chief opponent.
U.N. alarmed by Yemen power vacuum, monitoring situation closely
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations is alarmed by what it described as a power vacuum in Yemen after the dominant Houthi movement dissolved parliament on Friday and said a new interim assembly and government would be formed, a U.N. spokesman …
Taiwan pilots ‘lost thrust in one engine, restarted the other’
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The crew of a twin-propellor TransAsia plane which crashed into a river in Taipei killing 35 people had lost power in one engine but shut down and restarted the other, investigators said on Friday.
Former militants join Nigeria’s Jonathan for election rally
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian ruling party politicians and former militants who in past decades disrupted Africa’s biggest oil industry met in President Goodluck Jonathan’s home state of Bayelsa on Friday to rally support for his re-election bi…
Venezuela angry at UK over ‘spy glasses’ smuggled into Lopez trial
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top prosecutor is seeking an explanation from Britain about a diplomat’s role in an attempt to film the trial of opposition protest leader Leopoldo Lopez using video glasses.
Brazil police seize luxury cars, cash from fallen tycoon Batista
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian police said they seized seven cars, including a white Lamborghini, and $32,490 in cash, computers, watches and other items on Friday from embattled oil and mining tycoon Eike Batista, who is on trial for insider trading …
Kosovo helpless to stem exodus of illegal migrants
VUSHTRRI, Kosovo/ASOTTHALOM, Hungary (Reuters) – Bajram Abazi has lost half his workforce in little over a month, claimed by a sudden surge in emigration from Kosovo.
UAE sees no defeat of Islamic State without Iraq’s Sunnis: Etihad paper
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates pulled out of U.S.-led air strikes on Islamic State positions partly because it thought they could not succeed without a push to arm Sunni Muslim tribes in Iraq, a newspaper close to the government said on Fri…
Egyptian man gets 25 years in U.S. prison in embassy bombing case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Egyptian man was sentenced in New York on Friday to 25 years in U.S. prison in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Dead prosecutor was a ‘soldier’ of ex-Argentine spy boss
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The Argentine prosecutor found dead last month was the unwitting “soldier” of former counterintelligence chief Antonio Stiusso, who was seeking revenge for his firing, President Cristina Fernandez’s chief of staff said.
