Rising immigration embarrasses Britain’s Cameron before vote
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to cut annual net migration to below 100,000 was undermined on Thursday after figures showed the net flow of migrants coming into Britain rose by 37 percent to 212,000 people in the year …
Nine dead in Qatar restaurant gas explosion: news agency
DOHA (Reuters) – Nine people were killed when gas canisters exploded in a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, the official news agency of the Gulf Arab state reported.
Thai PM faces negligence charges as protest leader broaches talks
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s anti-corruption agency weighed charges of negligence against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday as the leader of protests aimed at forcing her from power suggested a televised debate after weeks of refusing to…
Exclusive: U.N. nuclear agency opted against sensitive Iran report – sources
VIENNA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog planned a major report on Iran that might have revealed more of its suspected atomic bomb research, but held off as Tehran’s relations with the outside world thawed, sources familiar with the …
Ouattara to return to Ivory Coast on Sunday: aide
PARIS (Reuters) – President Alassane Ouattara is due to return to Ivory Coast on Sunday after an operation in a French hospital this month, an aide said on Thursday.
Fearing their homeland, Afghan asylum seekers find refuge in Brussels church
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Afghan refugees have set up camp in a Brussels church, protesting against their imminent deportation to their home country, which they say is not safe.
Japan Red Cross says plans talks for return of remains from North Korea
TOKYO (Reuters) – Officials from the Japanese and North Korean affiliates of the Red Cross will hold talks next week on the return of the remains of Japanese nationals from North Korea, a Japanese Red Cross official said on Thursday.
German court clears disgraced former president of corruption
HANOVER (Reuters) – A German court cleared Christian Wulff on Thursday of corruption charges for accepting about 700 euros in expenses at a beer festival when he was a state premier, ending the country’s first post-war trial of a former president.
U.S. envoy tells China, Japan to lower temperature in sea row
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Japan must ease tension in the disputed East China Sea to avoid severe “unintended consequences”, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Thursday, days before he steps down as Washington’s first Chinese-American envoy…
India infrastructure splurge too late for this – or next – government
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s drive to break an infrastructure investment logjam has come too late to revive the economy before the forthcoming general election – and it could be years before it pays growth dividends for the next government.
