China’s top military body to take over army auditing office
BEIJING (Reuters) – The auditing office of China’s powerful People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has come under the direct management of the Central Military Commission, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday, in a series of military reforms to shore up s…
Finland’s Stubb echoes Merkel on UK immigration curb plans
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Freedom of movement within the European Union is sacrosanct, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said on Thursday ahead of a meeting with his British counterpart David Cameron, who has said he’d like to curb EU immigration.
China premier won’t meet Suu Kyi, will offer Myanmar aid
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will not meet Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi when he visits the country next week, but will announce a new aid package and series of deals, officials said on Thursday.
Tribesmen blow up main Yemen oil export pipeline
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni tribesmen blew up the country’s main oil export pipeline on Thursday, forcing crude flows to stop, energy industry and tribal sources said, in the latest attack on a key source of foreign currency.
APEC set to endorse anti-graft network
BEIJING (Reuters) – Asia Pacific countries are set to agree on an anti-corruption transparency network, a top APEC official said on Thursday, allowing law enforcement agencies to track illicit cash flows across borders as well as people suspected of gr…
Thai PM considering lifting martial law in some areas
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is ready to consider lifting martial law in some parts of the country to help boost a struggling tourism sector and economy, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
U.S.-led air strikes hit al Qaeda affiliate in Syria: monitor
AMMAN (Reuters) – Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State targeted the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Thursday.
Colombia’s FARC kill two over memorial to ex-leader, bomb pipeline
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Leftist FARC guerrillas killed two members of an indigenous community in southwestern Colombia on Wednesday apparently for removing a billboard commemorating the death of their former leader Alfonso Cano in the region three years ago…
PDVSA says controls fire at Curacao’s Isla refinery, three injured
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA on Wednesday said operations were normal at the 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Isla refinery on the island of Curacao after it controlled a fire that injured three people.
Gunmen storm Libya’s El Sharara oilfield, shut down production
BENGHAZI/TUNIS (Reuters) – Gunmen seized Libya’s major El Sharara oilfield, looting equipment and shooting as frightened workers sought shelter, oil sources said on Wednesday, in another blow to the country’s oil industry which has been subjected to pr…
