Chinese official looks to charm Taiwan during landmark visit
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China’s top official in charge of Taiwan ties will make a landmark visit to the island this week to try to woo Taiwanese who remain suspicious about a pending trade pact as well as meet a senior figure from the pro-independen…
Chile’s Bachelet promises to return land to indigenous people
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday announced a plan to buy and return disputed ancestral lands to Chile’s indigenous communities as part of a strategy to better incorporate them into the country’s political process and economic…
Egypt’s president says will not interfere in judicial rulings
CAIRO (Reuters) – Newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday he would not interfere with judicial verdicts, following an international outcry over lengthy prison sentences given to three Al Jazeera journalists a day earlier.
Special Report: Rebekah Brooks – The tangled tale of a tabloid career
LONDON (Reuters) – On July 7, 2011, at the height of Britain’s phone-hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks announced the closure of Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper, The News of the World. That evening, she sat with senior colleagues in a restaurant in London’s Chelsea Harbour, fighting back tears.
At least 18 killed in attack on northern Nigerian village: police
JOS Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed when gunmen stormed a village in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna overnight, a police spokesman said on Tuesday, the latest in daily bloody attacks that have racked Africa’s most populous coun…
EU sets Albania on road to membership
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union set Albania on the road to membership on Tuesday, granting the small Balkan state the status of candidate to join in recognition of recent reforms, while warning the government that progress was conditional on fu…
Further fighting in Central African Republic kills over 50
BANGUI (Reuters) – More than 50 people have been killed in two days of clashes in Central African Republic, witnesses and officials said on Tuesday, with foreign troops struggling to stop recurrent violence between Muslim and Christian communities.
Italy, Germany cloak budget differences in common language
ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) – Italy and Germany are using the same words ahead of this week’s European Union summit as debate heats up on whether economic policy should focus on budget austerity or stimulating growth, but they do not necessarily mean the sam…
Monaco heiress death: police eye son-in-law’s bank activity
MARSEILLE (Reuters) – French police investigating the shooting death last month of Monaco heiress Helene Pastor have discovered what they said were ‘suspicious’ transactions in the bank accounts of her son-in-law, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.
South Africa platinum union, mines sign wage deal but job cuts loom
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The world’s three biggest platinum firms signed a wage deal with South Africa’s AMCU union on Tuesday but said that fallout from a five-month strike made job cuts and restructuring inevitable, setting the scene for more labor t…
