Doubts surface about India’s Modi after trade deal scuppered
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to office with a reputation as a business-friendly leader ready to open up one of the world’s biggest markets and sweep away the remnants of the country’s socialist past.
Nine more killed after week of violence in China’s Xinjiang
BEIJING (Reuters) – Nine militants were shot dead and one captured in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state media said, the latest bout of violence in a week in which dozens have been killed there.
Ugandan court overturns anti-gay law that halted Western aid
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s constitutional court on Friday overturned an anti-homosexuality law that punished gay sex with long prison sentences and was condemned by Western and other donors, some of whom withheld aid in protest.
Jailed Indian tycoon gets office to negotiate hotel sales
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court has granted a jailed business tycoon an office, a phone, Internet connection and three secretaries in the Delhi prison that has been his home for five months so he can sell two of his company’s iconic hotels …
Exclusive: China’s Xi likely to promote army general who exposed graft – sources
BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping is likely to promote a corruption whistleblower to China’s top military decision-making body to underscore his determination to tackle graft inside the country’s rapidly modernizing armed forces, two sources sai…
Iraqi foreign minister blames Maliki for Islamist insurgency
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his security officials are to blame for the rise of Sunni Muslim insurgents who have seized parts of Iraq, the country’s foreign minister said.
Campaign for an independent Scotland stalls before historic vote
LONDON (Reuters) – The campaign for Scotland to break away from the United Kingdom has stalled just over a month before Scots decide whether to go it alone in a referendum, an analysis of the latest six opinion polls showed on Friday.
Somali lawmaker killed in Mogadishu, fifth since April
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist militants shot dead a Somali lawmaker in the capital Mogadishu on Friday by blocking his car and spraying him with bullets, police and witnesses said, after the fifth killing of a legislator in less than four months.
Myanmar military releases 91 child soldiers
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military released 91 children and young people from military service on Friday, the United Nations said as it encouraged the army to speed up demobilization to ensure it has no under-age soldiers in its ranks.
South Sudan conflict drives idea of oil wealth monitoring
NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan’s oil fields have become a battleground in the struggle for power in Africa’s newest nation, encouraging Western nations and regional mediators to consider international monitoring of crude revenues as a way to remove a …
