U.N. sets sights on Syria antiquities, Islamic State oil, ransoms
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council appears set to ban all trade in antiquities from war-torn Syria, threaten sanctions on anyone buying oil from Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front militants and condemn paying kidn…
Kerry meets Iran minister in Munich on nuclear talks
MUNICH (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for more than an hour on Friday to discuss developments in nuclear negotiations between Tehran and major world powers, which have been at an impasse…
UK concerned over ‘threatening’ Russian nuclear strategy
MUNICH (Reuters) – Britain’s defense minister voiced concern on Friday that Russia may have “lowered the threshold” for using nuclear weapons and said Britain must update its own deterrent in response to Russian modernization of its nuclear forces.
Four killed in Bangladesh fire bomb attack on bus
DHAKA (Reuters) – At least four people, including a child, were burned alive in northern Bangladesh when opposition activists hurled petrol bombs at a packed bus on Friday night in the latest spasm of worsening political violence.
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…
