Vietnam stops anti-China protests after riots, China evacuates workers
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam flooded major cities with police to avert anti-China protests on Sunday, while Beijing evacuated thousands of citizens after a flare-up over disputed sovereignty in the South China Sea sparked rare and deadly rioting in Vietna…
Guinea-Bissau votes in post-coup presidential runoff
BISSAU (Reuters) – Voters in Guinea-Bissau began casting their ballots on Sunday in a presidential run-off election meant to draw a line under a 2012 military coup and renew cooperation between the chronically unstable West African nation and donors an…
Chinese police blame separatist group for Urumqi bombing: Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police blamed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for a train station attack in the western city of Urumqi last month that killed three people, Xinhua said on Sunday, the first time the separatists have been directly …
Greeks vote in first round of local elections
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greeks began voting on Sunday in the first round of local elections that mark Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s first big electoral test since coming to power two years ago.
Next Iran nuclear talks due on June 16-20: IRNA
DUBAI (Reuters) – The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers will take place in Vienna on June 16-20, senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi was reported as saying by the IRNA official state news agency.
Failing Ukraine state plays in to Russia’s hands
KIEV (Reuters) – In late February, just two days after pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich fled Kiev, Ukraine’s parliament repealed a law enshrining the rights of Russian-speakers to use their first language.
A first for Indonesia, ethnic Chinese leader takes charge in the capital
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s presidential race isn’t until July. But there’s already one winner.
Ukraine crisis will be ‘game changer’ for NATO
GAIZIUNAI, Lithuania/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Artillery and tank fire reverberate around a Baltic airstrip where U.S. paratroopers are fighting alongside Lithuanian soldiers. The battle is just an exercise and it only involves 150 U.S. soldiers – but the s…
Street by street, Assad extends grip in central Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – From his base in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad can contemplate a broad sweep of Syria clawed back from rebels who once threatened to drive him out. The capital which they targeted is now plastered with posters inviting Syrians to reelect…
West Africa leaders vow to wage ‘total war’ on Boko Haram
PARIS (Reuters) – West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage “total war” on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group had become a regional al Qaeda that threatened all of them.
