Greeks vote in first round of local elections
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greeks began voting on Sunday in the first round of local elections that mark Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s first big electoral test since coming to power two years ago.
Next Iran nuclear talks due on June 16-20: IRNA
DUBAI (Reuters) – The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers will take place in Vienna on June 16-20, senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi was reported as saying by the IRNA official state news agency.
Failing Ukraine state plays in to Russia’s hands
KIEV (Reuters) – In late February, just two days after pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich fled Kiev, Ukraine’s parliament repealed a law enshrining the rights of Russian-speakers to use their first language.
A first for Indonesia, ethnic Chinese leader takes charge in the capital
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s presidential race isn’t until July. But there’s already one winner.
Ukraine crisis will be ‘game changer’ for NATO
GAIZIUNAI, Lithuania/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Artillery and tank fire reverberate around a Baltic airstrip where U.S. paratroopers are fighting alongside Lithuanian soldiers. The battle is just an exercise and it only involves 150 U.S. soldiers – but the s…
Street by street, Assad extends grip in central Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – From his base in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad can contemplate a broad sweep of Syria clawed back from rebels who once threatened to drive him out. The capital which they targeted is now plastered with posters inviting Syrians to reelect…
West Africa leaders vow to wage ‘total war’ on Boko Haram
PARIS (Reuters) – West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage “total war” on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group had become a regional al Qaeda that threatened all of them.
More than 20 dead, thousands evacuated in Bosnia, Serbia floods
OBRENOVAC, Serbia (Reuters) – More than 20 people have been killed in the worst floods in more than a century in Serbia and Bosnia, authorities said on Saturday, with thousands evacuated from towns still under threat from rising rivers.
A first for Indonesia, ethnic Chinese leader takes charge in the capital
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s presidential race isn’t until July. But there’s already one winner.
North Korea says apartment building collapses, offers rare apology
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has apologized to bereaved families after an apartment building collapsed in Pyongyang last week, possibly killing hundreds, the official KCNA news agency said, a rare admission of fallibility from the reclusive state.
