Hungarian oligarch turns on his former ally PM Orban
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose ruling party faces growing discontent in its ranks, suffered a serious setback on Friday when a longtime friend and leading oligarch publicly turned against him.
Top court says Canadians have right to die, strikes down ban
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a ban on physician-assisted suicide on Friday, unanimously reversing a decision it made in 1993 and putting Canada in the company of a handful of Western countries to make it legal.
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…
