Philippine capital braces for storm, as Hagupit leaves 27 dead
DOLORES, Philippines (Reuters) – Typhoon Hagupit weakened to a tropical storm as it churned close to the Philippine capital on Monday, after killing 27 people on the eastern island of Samar island where it flattened homes, toppled trees and cut power a…
Brazil’s Rousseff resists pressure to prosecute dictatorship crimes
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – As a young Marxist in the early 1970s, Dilma Rousseff was jailed, hung upside down and tortured with electric shocks to her feet, head and breasts by Brazil’s military dictatorship.
Policeman killed in ‘terrorist’ attack in Bahrain – interior ministry
MANAMA (Reuters) – A policeman was killed in a “terrorist” incident while on duty southwest of Bahrain’s capital Manama on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
U.S. sanctions aimed at changing power, Russian envoy says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A senior Russian diplomat accused the United States on Monday of trying to bring down President Vladimir Putin with the sanctions it has imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.
Bomb wounds Lebanese man in border town-official
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A bomb wounded a Lebanese man in the town of Arsal near the border with Syria on Monday in an attack that appeared to be linked to a local rivalry, a Lebanese security official said.
Obama, Prince William chat amiably during White House visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama met with Britain’s Prince William at the White House on Monday as part of the prince’s short visit to the United States.
Indians ask what has changed since Delhi gang rape as Uber driver accused
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The alleged rape of a woman by a taxi driver in India’s capital, just days before the city marks the second anniversary of a notorious gang rape on a Delhi bus, has sparked debate over whether security for India…
U.N. Syria envoy pitches Aleppo truce plan to rebels in Turkey
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The United Nations peace envoy to Syria is holding talks with the Syrian opposition in Turkey to promote a cease-fire proposal for the northern city of Aleppo, opposition sources said on Monday.
Indonesia security forces shoot violent Papua protesters, four dead
JAKARTA (Reuters) – At least four people were killed in Indonesia’s volatile Papua region in clashes between protesters and security forces on Monday, according to the police and the chief security affairs minister.
UK’s Cameron to fly to Turkey to discuss IS foreign fighter problem
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron will travel to Turkey on Tuesday to meet President Tayyip Erdogan to discuss how to stop Britons crossing into Syria and Iraq to join up with Islamic State (IS) fighters via the Turkish border, his spokes…
