China warns officials against aping Western morality
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party will step up ideological education of officials to prevent them from aping Western moral standards and strengthen their faith in communism to help in the fight against pervasive corruption, state media…
U.S. presses case against Russia on downed jet as horror deepens
HRABOVE Ukraine/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the vi…
Hamas says Israeli soldier captured; Gaza death toll jumps
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas’s armed wing said on Sunday it had captured an Israeli soldier, as fighting in Gaza led to the bloodiest losses in a nearly two-week military offensive, with some 100 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers killed.
UK’s new foreign secretary reiterates earlier stance on EU membership
(Reuters) – Britain’s new Foreign Secretary Philip Hammonds reiterated his position from two years ago that if Britain does not get good renegotiation, it should leave the European Union.
Ex-Libyan rebel commander appeals ruling on British torture case
LONDON (Reuters) – A former Libyan Islamist commander who says he suffered years of torture by Muammar Gaddafi’s henchmen after British and U.S. spies handed him over to Libya will try this week to overturn a ruling blocking legal action against the Br…
Colombia’s Santos opens ‘Congress of peace,’ urges deal with rebels
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened a new session of Congress on Sunday, calling on lawmakers to back government efforts to strike a peace deal with Marxist rebels to end 50 years of war.
Exclusive: U.N. Security Council to vote Monday on Ukraine resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is due to vote Monday on a resolution that would condemn the downing of a Malaysian passenger plane in Ukraine and demands that those responsible be held accountable and that armed groups don’t compr…
Gunmen kill at least four in Kenyan port city, scatter leaflets
MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least four people and injured several others in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Sunday, police said.
Five killed, 24 wounded in Nicaragua convoy attack
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Shots fired at a convoy of vehicles returning from a national celebration in western Nicaragua early on Sunday left five dead and 24 wounded, a government website reported.
Mortar fire south of Baghdad kills nine, police, hospital sources say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nine people were killed in a mainly Shi’ite town south of Baghdad late on Sunday by mortar fire that hit near a Shi’ite religious site, police and hospital sources said.
