French villa owned by ousted Chinese politician Bo up for sale: report
BEIJING (Reuters) – A lavish French villa owned by disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been put up for sale for more than 6.95 million euros ($8.5 million), the state-backed Global Times reported on Monday, after his spectacular fall from grace.
China foreign minister says willing to help Russia
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is willing to help Russia if needed but believes that the country has the ability to overcome its current economic problems, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was quoted as saying in a state newspaper on Monday.
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism.
U.S. firm finds malware targeting visitors to Afghan government websites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Malicious software likely linked to China was used to infect visitors to a wide range of official Afghan government websites, U.S. cybersecurity researchers say.
China arrests thousands in porn, gambling crackdown: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has detained over 30,000 people during a two-month clamp down on pornography and gambling, state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
How Syria policy stalled under the ‘analyst in chief’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – (This version of the story was refiled to clarify the size of National Security Council staff in paragraph 12 for the record, after the story originally published on October 9 was updated on October 28 and refiled on December 19,…
Iraqi Kurds, Yazidis fight Islamic State for strategic town of Sinjar
MOUNT SINJAR, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the strategic northern Iraqi town of Sinjar back from Islamic State on Sunday after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it.
Essebsi declares win in Tunisia election, rival contests
TUNIS (Reuters) – Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi declared victory in Sunday’s presidential run-off vote, seen as the last step in Tunisia’s shift to full democracy four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
Syria says Israeli drone downed in Quneitra
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria said on Sunday that an Israeli drone had been brought down in the province of Quneitra near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Invoking Allah, driver slams car into pedestrians in eastern France
PARIS (Reuters) – French police arrested a man on Sunday evening after he deliberately mowed down a dozen pedestrians in the eastern city of Dijon, badly injuring two of them and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is the greatest”), authorities said.
