Dutch PM: unlikely investigators will get to MH17 crash site
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday it was increasingly unlikely Dutch investigators would be able to reach the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash zone in eastern Ukraine due to fighting and the approach of winter.
Iran: nuclear talks might be extended if November deadline missed
ANKARA (Reuters) – Talks over Iran’s nuclear program might be extended if disagreement over remaining issues cannot be resolved by a November deadline, Iran’s top negotiator was quoted as saying on Friday, in the first hint an extension was being conte…
China offers incentives for criminals overseas to give themselves up
BEIJING (Reuters) – Corrupt Chinese officials who have fled abroad are being offered reduced sentences and other incentives to give themselves up and return home, state media said on Friday, as the government continues its sweeping campaign against gra…
Ex-Soviet states bicker as Putin tries to unite them
MINSK (Reuters) – Vulgar chants about Vladimir Putin before he arrived for a regional summit in Belarus did not augur well for the Russian president’s hopes of bringing the leaders of former Soviet republics closer together.
Serbia backs jail terms for Serbs fighting in foreign conflicts
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s parliament approved on Friday jail terms of up to eight years for anyone found guilty of fighting in foreign wars, in an effort to dissuade citizens from joining conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere.
Anti-EU party up-ends UK politics by targeting left and right
LONDON (Reuters) – After years of promising a political earthquake, the UK Independence Party is causing tremors. It poached one of Prime Minister David Cameron’s parliamentary seats and almost took another from the Labour party.
Missing students and murders eclipse reforms push in Mexico
IGUALA Mexico (Reuters) – For nearly two years, President Enrique Pena Nieto has sought to direct the Mexican public’s gaze onto his efforts to open the economy and away from the brutal gang violence that blighted his predecessor’s government.
Two Koreas exchange machinegun fire at border, no casualties
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired machinegun rounds into South Korea on Friday, prompting the South to retaliate with its own fire, the South’s defence ministry said, three days after the rivals exchanged fire at a disputed sea border.
Slovenia names new EU nominee as Juncker tries to complete team
LJUBLJANA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Slovenian government named on Friday an entrepreneur and newly appointed minister, Violeta Bulc, as its candidate for a post in the new European Commission after its original nominee was rejected by the European Parli…
Thai PM stands by investigation into murders of British tourists
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha defended a police investigation into the murder of two British tourists on Friday, amid criticism of shoddy forensic work and concern that two arrested Myanmar men may have admitted the crimes u…
