North Korea: rocket firing not timed to coincide with papal visit to South
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday its firing of three short-range rockets shortly before Pope Francis arrived in the South Korean capital the previous day had nothing to do with the papal visit.
South Korea suggests Northeast Asia nuclear safety group
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday urged the creation of a nuclear safety consultative group in Northeast Asia, given the high number of nuclear power plants in the region and public concerns over safety.
Argentina says will use anti-terror law against U.S. printing firm
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government will use an anti-terrorism law for the first time to seek criminal charges against a U.S.-based international printing firm which closed its Argentine plant without warning, the president said on Thursday…
Militants threaten to kill U.S. pastor jailed in Iran: wife
SALMON Idaho (Reuters) – The Idaho wife of an Iranian-American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran for nearly two years said on Thursday her husband has received death threats from Islamic State militants held in the same detention center.
Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated: WHO
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the U.N. agency said on its website on Thursda…
Iraq’s Maliki finally steps aside, paving way for new government
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nuri al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash a Sunni Islamist insurgency that threat…
Japanese cabinet ministers visit shrine to war dead on anniversary of World War Two defeat
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese cabinet ministers paid their respects on Friday at a Tokyo shrine to war dead seen as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism, a move likely to anger Asian neighbors and put at risk attempts to improve regional ties.
Guinea declares public health emergency over Ebola
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea has declared a public health emergency over an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people in three West African states and is sending health workers to all affected border points, a government official said.
Exclusive: Emergency food drops eyed for quarantined Ebola region of West Africa
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International agencies are looking into emergency food drops and truck convoys to reach extremely hungry people in Liberia and Sierra Leone, who are cordoned off from the outside world to halt the spread of the…
Renewed Gaza truce holds after rocky start
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A new, five-day truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to give Egyptian-brokered peace negotiations in Cairo more time to try to end the Gaza war.
