Malaysia Airlines tweaks its ‘Bucket List’ sales campaign
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines has changed the wording of an online contest called “My Ultimate Bucket List” after Internet users derided the campaign as insensitive following two disasters suffered by the airline this year that claimed 537…
Fukushima workers sue Tepco over unpaid wages, reliance on contractors
IWAKI Japan (Reuters) – A group of Fukushima workers on Wednesday sued Tokyo Electric for unpaid wages in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to the utility and its reliance on contractors to shut down a nuclear plant destroyed by the indus…
Ramirez removed as PDVSA head, oil minister in Venezuela shake-up
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday pushed Rafael Ramirez from his twin posts as oil minister and a chief of state oil firm PDVSA in a cabinet shake-up that opposition critics said fell short of the overhaul needed to reverse the OPEC nation’s economic decline.
Crew of doomed South Korea ferry drank beer while awaiting rescue: media
SEOUL (Reuters) – Some crew of a ferry that capsized in April in South Korea’s worst maritime disaster in 44 years drank beer while waiting for rescue, one of them told a court, in an admission likely to fuel anger at their conduct during the final mom…
Ukraine steelmen hold their ground as frontline marches towards port
MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – The war is being fought just over the hills. Civilians have started to flee the city. But the men of the vast Ilyich iron and steel works in the Ukrainain port of Mariupol are still in place, pouring molten steel, running t…
Ukraine steelmen hold their ground as frontline marches towards port
MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – The war is being fought just over the hills. Civilians have started to flee the city. But the men of the vast Ilyich iron and steel works in the Ukrainain port of Mariupol are still in place, pouring molten steel, running t…
Macau poll reveals democracy urges amid Hong Kong row with China
HONG KONG Sep 3(Reuters) – An unofficial referendum on democracy in the southern Chinese gambling hub of Macau showed 89 percent of nearly 9,000 people who took part don’t trust their leader, who was re-elected on Sunday as the sole candidate.
Syrian forces escalate assault on rebel-held Damascus district
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian forces carried out their fiercest assault on the rebel stronghold of Jobar in Damascus since the start of the three-year war, conducting at least 27 air strikes on Tuesday and killing a child, according to activists and rights…
U.S. strikes Somali militant camp in bid to kill al Shabaab leader
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A U.S. military airstrike in Somalia has targeted the leader of the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, Somali and U.S. officials said on Tuesday, but they added it may take time to determine whether Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed.
Judge orders immediate release from Spanish jail of ill British boy’s parents
MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish judge has ordered the immediate release from custody of two British parents detained in Madrid for taking their seriously ill child out of hospital, a court source said on Tuesday, speeding a reunion with their five-year-ol…
