Japan’s Abe to co-opt rival, draft more women in cabinet reshuffle
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to co-opt a rival and draft more women to spruce up his image while keeping key ministers when he reshuffles his cabinet on Wednesday, a rejig dictated more by political dynamics than pol…
Yemen’s Houthis reject government move to quell protests
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s president dismissed his government on Tuesday, proposed a national unity administration and suggested reinstating fuel subsidies, government sources said, in moves to quell weeks of unrest by a rebel movement.
Three killed, nine injured when Libyan war plane crashes in eastern city: medics
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Three people were killed and nine injured when a Libyan war plane crashed on Tuesday in a residential part of the eastern city of Tobruk, residents and medics said.
Brazil squanders oil bonanza even as Rousseff declares victory
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has put her government’s oil policies front and center in her re-election campaign.
African leaders seek fund to fight militant groups
NAIROBI (Reuters) – African leaders proposed on Tuesday creating a special fund to combat Islamist militant groups growing in strength from Kenya to Nigeria.
End of Gaza war doesn’t translate into peace
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A week after the guns fell silent in the Gaza war, Israel and the Palestinians seem to have little appetite or incentive for a return to U.S.-sponsored peace and statehood talks that collapsed five months ago.
Pakistan parliament backs embattled prime minister as crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament threw its weight behind embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday as a deepening crisis over violent protests demanding his resignation prompted fears of an army intervention.
Saudi Arabia says it arrests 88 for preparing ‘terrorist’ raids
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has detained 88 people, more than half of them Saudis, on suspicion of plotting “terrorist” attacks at home and abroad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
EU proposes tough sanctions on Moscow as Ukraine rebels advance
BRUSSELS/KIEV (Reuters) – European officials proposed sweeping new sanctions on Tuesday to starve Russia’s companies of capital and technology as punishment for Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, where Kiev officials said Russia was bolstering an “invas…
Landmine kills four U.N. soldiers, wounds 15 in northern Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Four United Nations soldiers were killed on Tuesday and a further 15 were wounded when the convoy they were traveling in struck a landmine in an area of northern Mali where attacks are on the rise, a spokesman for the country’s U.N. …
