Front companies, embassies mask North Korean weapons trade: U.N.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has developed sophisticated ways to circumvent United Nations sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, a United Nations report issued on Tuesday said.
Brazil’s president faces revolt by coalition allies
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The rift between President Dilma Rousseff and her main political allies widened on Wednesday one day after they voted in Congress to look into bribery allegations leveled at Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras.
El Salvador army rules out coup in election result dispute
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s top military commander said on Wednesday the armed forces would not intervene in the disputed presidential election between a former leftist guerrilla leader and his right-wing rival, who has asked for the result …
Israel bombs Gaza militants after intensive rocket fire
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel bombed 29 targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, after Palestinian militants in the coastal territory fired 60 rockets into Israel in the heaviest such barrage since 2012.
Turkish protester, police officer die in day of clashes: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A protester in Istanbul died from a head injury and a police officer suffered a fatal heart attack during Turkey’s worst day of civil unrest since anti-government protests swept the nation last summer, local media said late on Wedn…
U.S. rebukes Sudan over Darfur violence, wants more from peacekeepers
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday condemned the recent upsurge in violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region, and said civilians are being “terrorized, displaced, and killed” despite the presence of one of the world’s biggest pea…
Missing jet may have strayed to west, Malaysia military says
KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC, Vietnam (Reuters) – Malaysia’s military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area south of the Thai holiday island of Phuket, hundreds of miles to the west of its last known position, th…
EU moves toward sanctions on Russians, Obama meets Ukraine PM
BRUSSELS/SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – The EU agreed on a framework on Wednesday for its first sanctions on Russia since the Cold War, a stronger response to the Ukraine crisis than many expected and a mark of solidarity with Washington in the drive …
Indian diplomat in U.S.-India row wins indictment’s dismissal
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Indian diplomat charged in New York with visa fraud and making false statements about a domestic worker she employed has won dismissal of a federal indictment, ending a chapter in an dispute that frayed U.S.-Indian diplomatic re…
Israel bombs Gaza militants after intensive rocket fire
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel bombed 29 targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, after Palestinian militants in the coastal territory fired 60 rockets into Israel in the heaviest such barrage since 2012.
