Japan’s Abe says won’t alter 1993 apology on ‘comfort women’
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday that his government would not revise a landmark 1993 apology to women, many Korean, forced to serve in wartime military brothels, as Washington presses for better ties between its two …
Four feared dead in latest British helicopter crash
LONDON (Reuters) – Four people are feared to have died when a civilian helicopter crashed in eastern England on Thursday evening, emergency services said, in the latest in a series of helicopter crashes in Britain over the past few months.
Gaza rockets, Israeli air strikes persist despite truce call
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – A small armed faction in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at Israel on Thursday, drawing retaliatory air strikes and pushing cross-border violence into a third day despite a truce called by the more powerful Palestinian group Isl…
Venezuela says death toll from protests rises to 28
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state prosecutor said on Thursday the death toll from a month of violent protests had risen to 28, after the nation’s top court ordered opposition mayors to dismantle barricades set up by street protesters.
Mexico’s main opposition party quits energy talks amid graft scandal
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s opposition conservative party on Thursday walked out of talks over the fine print of a landmark energy bill, accusing the government of using a graft scandal to gets its way, in a move that could delay the rollout of th…
Malaysia jet sent ‘pings’ after going missing, sources say
KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no information about where the stray jet was heading and little else about its fa…
Russia holds war games near Ukraine; Merkel warns of catastrophe
BERLIN/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia launched new military exercises near its border with Ukraine on Thursday, showing no sign of backing down on plans to annex its neighbor’s Crimea region despite a stronger than expected drive for sanctions from the EU a…
Turkey’s Erdogan condemns protesters as deaths fuel tensions
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan condemned anti-government protesters on Thursday as “charlatans” bent on sowing chaos in the run-up to local elections after Turkey’s worst civil unrest since mass protests last summer.
Bin Laden relative admitted al Qaeda link, FBI agent says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Suleiman Abu Ghaith admitted that months before al Qaeda’s 2001 hijacked jet attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he promised Osama bin Laden he would be a spokesman for the group, an FBI agent testified on Thursday …
House of Cards, credibility gap blunt China annual TV expose
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Waning popularity and a wounded reputation are likely to dull the edge of China’s consumer day TV expose when it airs on Saturday, offering some relief for companies that have in the past taken pains to avoid any fallout from the o…
