China’s top Taiwan official plays down violent protests on trip
BEIJING (Reuters) – Violent protests which forced China’s top official in charge of relations with Taiwan to cancel several meetings while visiting last week do not represent mainstream opinion, said the official concerned, who was also confident about…
North Korean daughter of Japanese abductee could visit Japan this year
SEOUL (Reuters) – The North Korean daughter of a Japanese woman abducted by Pyongyang agents as a schoolgirl can visit Japan later this year, signaling a potential improvement in bilateral ties even as the two nations meet for talks in Beijing.
China’s military calls for unity after top level graft bust
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military called on Tuesday for unity and loyalty to the ruling Communist Party after one of its most senior former officers was accused of corruption, the highest-ranking official to date felled in a battle against pervasive…
Special Report: The battle for Hong Kong’s soul
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Since Britain handed back colonial Hong Kong in 1997, retired primary school teacher and Falun Gong devotee Lau Wai-hing has fully exercised the freedoms China promised this city of 7.2 million.
U.S. soldier charged with murder after death of Panamanian woman
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. military authorities charged on Monday a U.S. soldier with “unpremeditated murder” after he allegedly killed a Panamanian woman, an army spokeswoman said.
Kerry chides Iran ahead of Vienna nuclear talks, deadline looms
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Iran ahead of this week’s nuclear talks in Vienna that it has yet to prove that its nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful in multiple rounds of talks with six world powers as a…
Gunfight kills 22 suspected gang members near Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Twenty-two suspected gang members were killed southwest of Mexico City early on Monday and one soldier was wounded, the government said, in one of the bloodiest shootouts with security forces since President Enrique Pena Nieto t…
Exclusive: U.N. Security Council sanctions Islamist ADF in Congo – diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council committee blacklisted Ugandan Islamist group, the Allied Democratic Forces, on Monday for recruitment and use of child soldiers, killing, maiming and sexually abusing women and children, and attacks on…
As caliphate is declared, Iraqi troops battle for Tikrit
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month across a swath of Iraq and Syria.
Clashes between Uganda army, CAR gunmen kill at least 17
BANGUI (Reuters) – Ugandan troops in Central African Republic (CAR) have killed at least 15 fighters from the mainly Muslim Seleka force, a group that has carved out fiefdoms in the country since leaving power earlier this year, local sources said on M…
