Ukraine’s Yanukovich, Russia’s Putin hold Sochi tete-a-tete
BOCHAROV RUCHEI, Russia (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, who is facing mass protests and economic turmoil at home, held a one-on-one meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Sochi on the day of the opening of the Winter Olympics, a Kre…
South Africa mine union steward killed in police clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A union steward was killed in a clash with police at an Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) mine in South Africa, where workers were holding a strike to press for higher wages, the company said on Saturday.
Obama aide Rice says recent troubles shouldn’t derail U.S.-India ties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top White House adviser attempted to smooth over troubled ties between the United States and India on Friday, saying the two countries should not allow the dispute over an Indian diplomat to “derail the future we are working di…
Egypt’s top TV satirist returns, criticizes public for lionizing Sisi
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s top satirist returned to television on Friday for the first airing of his show since it was pulled three months ago, and he skewered the public and media for lionizing the army chief widely expected to be the country’s next pr…
German tourist, 76, shot dead on Venezuelan island
CARACAS (Reuters) – A gunman shot dead an elderly German tourist on Venezuela’s Margarita island on Friday, authorities said, in the latest incident illustrating the country’s rampant crime.
U.S. diplomat plays down leaked call; Germany’s Merkel angry
KIEV (Reuters) – A top U.S. diplomat tried to play down the damage to Washington’s diplomacy in Ukraine from a leaked telephone call on Friday, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel called an obscene remark about the EU “absolutely unacceptable.”
Turkish forces seize suspected hijacker on plane in Istanbul
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish security forces on Friday seized a Ukrainian man who officials said made a bomb threat and tried to hijack a passenger plane, demanding to go to the Winter Olympics venue of Sochi just as the opening ceremony was taking pla…
Syria evacuates civilians from besieged Homs centre
HOMS, Syria (Reuters) – Syria evacuated 83 civilians on Friday who had lived under government siege in the devastated city of Homs for a year and a half, the first concrete result of talks launched two weeks ago to try to end the country’s civil war.
Analysis: Is Syria now a direct threat to the U.S.?
(Reuters) – Over the last two weeks, Obama administration officials have signaled – sometimes intentionally, sometimes not – that a worst-case scenario is emerging in Syria.
Bosnia rocked by spreading anti-government unrest
TUZLA/SARAJEVO, Bosnia (Reuters) – Protesters across Bosnia set fire to government buildings and fought with riot police on Friday as long-simmering anger over lack of jobs and political inertia fuelled a third day of the worst civil unrest in Bosnia s…
