India’s Modi visits Bhutan on first step of bid to assert regional sway
THIMPHU (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured Bhutan on Sunday of India’s support during his first trip abroad, a move seen as an attempt to assert his country’s influence in south Asia where China is steadily making inroads.
Polls show Scottish independence vote is closer than ever
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – The campaign for Scottish independence continues to gain ground against its pro-union rival, two surveys showed on Sunday, as pollsters near consensus that the race is getting ever-tighter ahead of the September referendum.
UK Cameron’s party in push to make EU referendum legally binding
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party said on Thursday it would resume a stalled drive to make a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union legally binding, a move designed to woo Eurosceptic voters and unit…
Colombians vote for president who will decide fate of peace talks
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombians were voting on Sunday in the tightest presidential election in decades, a contest that will decide if the nation moves ahead on peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels or step up its battlefield offensive to end a 50-year war…
Syrian government retakes border town in Assad coastal heartland
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces retook Kasab on Sunday, ousting rebels from the village on the Turkish border in the coastal heartland of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority sect, activists and state media said.
Egyptian security forces seize Brotherhood leaders’ assets
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have seized supermarket chains owned by two leading figures of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of the government’s crackdown against the banned organization, judicial and security sources told Reuters on Sunday…
Bangladesh accuses 17 over garment factory collapse
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday filed a case with local police accusing 17 people of breaching regulations over the construction of a building that collapsed last year, killing over 1,130 mostly garment workers.
NATO says Russia considers it an opponent, prepares Ukraine aid
MADRID (Reuters) – NATO is preparing measures to help Ukraine defend itself in its stand-off with Russia, and must adapt to the fact that Moscow now views it as an adversary, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview published on Sun…
Election candidate from Kosovo PM’s party shot dead
PRISTINA (Reuters) – A parliamentary candidate from the party of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was shot dead on Sunday, police said, one week after an inconclusive general election in the tiny Balkan nation.
Palestinian boy, 7, dies of injuries from Israeli air strike: medics
GAZA (Reuters) – A seven-year-old boy has died of wounds suffered in an Israeli air strike that killed his uncle, a Palestinian militant, as they were riding on a motorcycle in the Gaza Strip, relatives and hospital officials said on Sunday.
