Conflict minerals law starts working despite poor industry response
LONDON (Reuters) – A U.S. law on conflict minerals is curbing African warlords’ presence around mines in Congo, campaigners say, but its full impact remains unclear, with most firms failing to pinpoint the origin of their metals by a June deadline.
Israel bombs Gaza sites hours after bodies of Israeli teens found
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli aircraft bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, and troops opened fire and killed a Palestinian during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said.
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…
