Business trip to Iran ‘not helpful’, Kerry tells France
DUBAI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told his French counterpart a trip to Iran by French executives was “not helpful” and that it gave the wrong impression that the West could do business with Tehran as usual, a U.S. official said….
London hit by travel chaos as Tube staff goes on strike
LONDON (Reuters) – Millions of Londoners were caught up in commuting chaos on Wednesday, as Underground workers began the first in a series of strikes that Prime Minister David Cameron branded as “shameful.”
London hit by travel chaos as Tube staff goes on strike
LONDON (Reuters) – Millions of Londoners were caught up in commuting chaos on Wednesday, as Underground workers began the first in a series of strikes that Prime Minister David Cameron branded as “shameful.”
Blast at Libya school wounds six children: hospital, security sources
BENGHAZI (Libya) (Reuters) – At least six children were wounded when unknown assailants tossed a hand grenade into a school in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, hospital and security sources said on Wednesday.
Insight: Reclusive cleric’s followers pose biggest threat to Turkey’s Erdogan
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – At the FEM University Preparation School in Uskudar, a conservative district on the Asian side of Istanbul, young men are quietly receiving specialized coaching in how to pass the exams that give access to the most important…
Exclusive: Japan makes first oil payment to Iran in a year: sources
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan this week became the first of Iran’s oil buyers to make a payment for crude imports under an interim nuclear deal, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, as the West eased a year-long stranglehold on revenues that has crippled the I…
Protests hurting Ukraine economy: interim PM
KIEV (Reuters) – The confrontation between opposition-led protesters and the government of President Viktor Yanukovich, and a refusal to agree a compromise, is weighing on the Ukrainian economy, acting prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov said on Wednesday.
Thai protest leader mocks, PM defends rice-buying scheme
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s fiery protest leader denounced the government’s battered rice-buying scheme as corrupt and the prime minister leapt to its defense on Wednesday, days after an election did nothing to restore stability in the divided count…
Stormy start to Indian parliament’s last session before election
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Congress party hopes of pushing through new laws to tackle corruption stalled on Wednesday when the Indian parliament’s last session before a general election was adjourned amid rowdy scenes over the proposed creation of a new sta…
Kenyatta trial doomed unless Kenya helps: ICC prosecutors
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court has no realistic chance of successfully prosecuting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in the face of the Nairobi government’s “pure obstructionism”, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
