Prosecutors seek detention of Korean Air executive in nut case
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean prosecutors requested on Wednesday a detention warrant for a former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy about how she was served nuts in first class.
In plot reversal, Sony sends ‘The Interview’ to 200 theaters
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sony Pictures will allow “The Interview” to play in more than 200 U.S. theaters as of Christmas Day, reversing its decision to pull the film, after coming under criticism from President Barack Obama and others for cav…
A decade of Western aid in Afghanistan – mission unsustainable?
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan has new roads, sections of which many deem too dangerous to use. It has a turbine to fill electricity needs that remains in pieces. Sixteen transport planes given to the Air Force were scrapped having barely flown.
Special Report: Fear and retribution in Xi’s corruption purge
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Chen Zhenggao, a member of the Communist Party’s elite Central Committee, clearly has enemies.
Australian foreign minister hopeful Egypt will release Al Jazeera journalist
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Wednesday the case of jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste is “under consideration” by high levels of the Egyptian government and she is hopeful of his release by the end of the y…
Brazil’s Rousseff picks allies for second-term cabinet
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff appointed 13 new ministers on Tuesday, choosing allied politicians in a cabinet reshuffle while trying to avoid any names that could be linked to a widening corruption scandal at state-run oil com…
Without help, Libya could become next Syria, foreign minister says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Libya, torn by a growing political divide that threatens to engulf its oilfields, could become the next Syria if it does not patch its divided government and get help battling Islamic militants, the country’s foreign minister sai…
Sony Pictures moves to release ‘The Interview’ in about-face
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sony Pictures will allow “The Interview” to play in some U.S. theaters on Christmas Day, reversing its decision to pull the film, after coming under criticism from President Barack Obama and others for caving into pre…
U.S. calls planned Thai poll delay to 2016 ‘unwise’
BANGKOK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A general election to return Thailand to democracy will be held in February 2016 at the earliest, a deputy prime minister said after talks with a U.S. diplomat on Tuesday, a delay Washington later called “unwise and unjus…
Anti-terror police arrest two in Sydney week after siege
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian counter-terrorism police said on Wednesday they arrested two men in Sydney, eight days after a 16-hour siege in a central city cafe ended with the deaths of two hostages and a gunman with radical Islamist sympathies.
