China, Brazil close plane, finance, infrastructure deals
BRASILIA (Reuters) – China and Brazil sealed their expanding commercial partnership on Thursday with a $5 billion credit line for Brazilian miner Vale and the purchase of 60 passenger jets from Brazilian planemaker Embraer.
West considers early sanctions moves in troubled Iran nuclear talks
BRUSSELS/VIENNA (Reuters) – With talks between world powers and Iran over a broad nuclear accord at an impasse, Western governments are considering offering a significant easing of sanctions early on in the process to try to wring concessions from Tehr…
Woman in Mexican children’s home probe a divisive figure
ZAMORA Mexico (Reuters) – To her supporters, Rosa Verduzco dedicated her life to raising and helping thousands of children abandoned by their own parents.
Bulgaria’s fence to stop migrants on Turkey border nears completion
GOLIAM DERVENT Bulgaria (Reuters) – Bulgaria has largely completed the construction of a 33-km (21-mile) barbed wire fence at the border with its southeastern neighbor Turkey as it tries to cope with asylum seekers, its defense minister said on Thursda…
Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 295 dead: agency
KIEV (Reuters) – A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Talks to end South African wage strike resume at weekend: SEIFSA
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Wage talks with South Africa’s metalworkers union will resume at the weekend, an employer body said on Thursday, denying a report of a government-brokered deal to end a strike that is further sapping an ailing economy.
UK’s Cameron, EU’s Juncker ‘high five’ and make up
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – David Cameron shared a “high five” greeting with Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday when the two men held their first private talks since the British leader’s failed attempt to block the Luxembourger from becoming European Commission …
Assassination, airport shelling deepen Libya’s chaos
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Several shells hit the terminal of Libya’s main airport on Thursday as rival militias fought in Tripoli for a fifth day, and gunmen assassinated a female politician in the east.
UK summons Spanish envoy over ‘provocative’ Gibraltar naval activity
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Thursday it had summoned Spain’s ambassador to protest over what it described as “provocative” activity by the Spanish navy near the disputed territory of Gibraltar.
UK coalition strained as Deputy PM likens Cameron’s policies to Putin’s
LONDON (Reuters) – Strains in Britain’s two-party coalition surfaced on Thursday as David Cameron’s governing partner likened the prime minister’s policies to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other “tyrants”.
