Exclusive: Shift by hard-line Taliban factions may have sealed prisoner exchange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The breakthrough leading to Saturday’s surprise exchange of a U.S. prisoner of war for five Guantanamo detainees suddenly became possible after harder-line factions of the Afghan Taliban apparently shifted course and agreed to ba…
U.S. and China square off at Asia security forum
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States and China squared off at an Asian security forum on Saturday, with the U.S. defense secretary accusing Beijing of destabilizing the region and a top Chinese general retorting that his comments were “threat and in…
Eyeing Pakistan and China, India’s Modi bolsters security team
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen a daring former spy with years of experience in dealing with Pakistan as his national security adviser, a move officials say signals a more muscular approach to New Delhi’s tradi…
How a private commemoration of the Tiananmen protests riled Chinese police
BEIJING (Reuters) – Early last month, 15 people went to a Beijing apartment to mark the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. Among them were scholars, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer, writers and t…
Exclusive: Syria bomber was Florida-born, raised in middle-class family
SEBASTIAN Fla. (Reuters) – The man believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria was born in Florida and loved to play basketball. He was an average student who grew up in a well-kept middle-class neighborhood about 90 minutes south of Orla…
U.S. and China square off at Asia security forum
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States and China squared off at an Asian security forum on Saturday, with the U.S. defense secretary accusing Beijing of destabilizing the region and a top Chinese general retorting that his comments were “threat and in…
Five dead in Guatemalan landslide after heavy rains
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A landslide caused by heavy rains killed five and injured three in a mountainous farming region of Guatemala, an emergency official said on Saturday. 
Amnesty says Iranian dissident faces imminent execution
LONDON (Reuters) – Amnesty International urged Iran on Saturday not to execute a political dissident convicted of “enmity against God” in what it said had been an unfair trial, as his family said they feared he would be hanged within hours.
Cameron says can’t guarantee UK staying in EU if Juncker gets top job-magazine
BERLIN (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned he would no longer be able to guarantee that Britain would remain a member of the European Union if European leaders elect Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission chief, Germany’s Sp…
Turkish police fire teargas at protesters on anniversary of unrest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon on Saturday to disperse protesters in central Istanbul who sought to mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s biggest anti-government demonstrations in decades.
