Fresh Thai election no closer despite multi-party meeting
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s political impasse looked no closer to a solution on Tuesday despite a rare meeting of political parties and the Election Commission to discuss how and when a new vote should be held after a general election in February wa…
Submarine drone search for Malaysian plane to continue
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) – A U.S. submarine drone will keep scouring the Indian Ocean floor for traces of a missing Malaysian jetliner after it finishes its current targeted search, Australian authorities told Reuters as a tropical cyclone suspended …
Nine killed in attacks in Pakistan’s volatile northwest
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Nine people, including policemen, were killed and dozens wounded in two separate bomb and gun attacks in Pakistan’s volatile northwest on Tuesday, police said, a week after the Taliban refused to extend a ceasefire with t…
In Indian mining town, nexus between politics and crime plays out
BELLARY, India (Reuters) – Stooping to feed grain to a black cow as a religious offering at his unfinished mansion, Indian politician and rags-to-riches millionaire B. Sreeramulu may need help from the gods if he is to win a hard-fought race for the pa…
Islamists kill second Somali lawmaker, threaten more attacks
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist rebels shot dead a Somali lawmaker on Tuesday, a day after blowing up one of his colleagues in his car, and vowed to keep killing politicians and wreck efforts to secure the country.
French PM under party pressure to tweak deficit plan
PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will discuss tweaking a major deficit-reduction program on Tuesday with Socialist lawmakers who want to reduce cutbacks for low-income pensioners, a day before it is due be presented to parliament.
South Africa platinum talks resume in bid to end three-month strike
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Chief executives of the world’s top platinum producers were to again meet the leaders of the AMCU union on Tuesday for wage talks in a bid to find an agreement to end the longest and most costly strike on South Africa’s mines i…
Indonesian political sniping offers presidential hopeful Jokowi some help
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian presidential frontrunner Joko “Jokowi” Widodo looks to be getting some extra help from the bickering that threatens to undermine his chief rivals to become the next leader of the world’s third biggest democracy.
Japanese minister, MPs visit Yasukuni Shrine on eve of Obama visit
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese cabinet minister and about 150 lawmakers on Tuesday visited Yasukuni Shrine, seen by critics as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism, sparking anger among Asian neighbors a day before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in t…
Wage cuts make Spain’s recovery a long, painful path
MADRID (Reuters) – Carmen Collado has laundered hospital linen in Madrid for 11 years. Now, almost half her colleagues have been fired and the 61-year-old grandmother is cleaning the same bed sheets, nurses’ scrubs and towels as before for half the pay…
