Thieves in Mexico steal truck with dangerous radioactive load
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Thieves in central Mexico on Thursday stole a pick-up truck carrying dangerous radioactive material, authorities said.
Ukraine parliament gives preliminary nod to emergency energy plans
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament gave preliminary approval on Friday to a draft law that would allow the Kiev government to exert tighter control over the energy sector in the face of dwindling natural gas supplies after Russia cut off exports las…
Hong Kong police charge pro-democracy march organizers
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Five organizers of a massive pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong were charged by police on Friday with a range of minor offences, as pressure builds on Communist Party rulers in Beijing to introduce political reforms in the former Br…
China’s Xi invites South Korea joint effort on Japan’s wartime past
SEOUL (Reuters) – China and South Korea have a common interest in ensuring Tokyo is held to account for its wartime past, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday, amid their shared concerns about Japan’s more assertive security strategy.
Abe heads to Australia after step back from post-war pacifism
TOKYO (Reuters) – A week after loosening curbs on Japan’s military, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Australia to bolster security ties and conclude a defence industry agreement that may help seal a deal to build Australia a fleet of stealth submarin…
Myanmar Buddhists threaten death to Muslims in Mandalay unrest
MANDALAY Myanmar (Reuters) – Hundreds of Buddhists threatened to kill Muslims as they rode on motorcycles through Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay on Friday, raising the prospect of further communal violence after two people died in unrest ear…
South Africa’s metal workers, employers ‘not far’ from wage deal: union official
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Striking engineering and metal workers and employers are “not very far from each other” on a wage deal to end a four-day walkout, the General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said on Frida…
Malaysian police make new arrests of suspected Sri Lankan Tamil activists
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police said on Friday they had arrested four foreign nationals suspected of having links to Sri Lanka’s defeated separatist Tamil Tigers, the second such detention aimed at the group’s militants in the southeast Asian…
Thai junta compares its intervention to Myanmar’s 1988 crackdown
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s military on Friday compared its seizure of power in May to restore stability after months of unrest to the brutal crackdown by Myanmar’s former junta in 1988 to snuff out a pro-democracy movement.
Iraqi Kurdish president asks parliament to prepare for independence vote
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region asked its parliament on Thursday to plan a referendum on Kurdish independence, signaling his impatience with Baghdad, which is fighting to repel Sunni insurgents and struggling to…
