Japan may only be able to restart one-third of its nuclear reactors
TOKYO (Reuters) – Three years after the Fukushima disaster prompted the closure of all Japan’s nuclear reactors, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to revive nuclear power as a core part of the energy mix, but many of those idled reactors will never c…
Abbas signs international conventions; Kerry cancels visit
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed more than a dozen international conventions on Tuesday, citing anger at Israel’s delay of a prisoner release in a decision that jeopardized U.S. efforts to salvage fragile peace…
Abbas signs international conventions, jeopardizing peace moves
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed more than a dozen international conventions on Tuesday citing anger at Israel’s delay of a prisoner release, in a move jeopardized U.S. efforts to salvage fragile peace talks.
French Greens say they will not join new government
PARIS (Reuters) – The French Greens party will not take part in a newly formed government under Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls, it said on Tuesday, breaking away from a coalition marked by tensions over energy policy.
White House: Obama has not decided to release Israeli spy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has not made a decision to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday.
Syrian boys become breadwinners as parents struggle in Turkey
KILIS, Turkey (Reuters) – The busy market district of Kilis in southeast Turkey is full of Syrian refugee children, repairing household goods, serving baklava and selling jewelery to become the main breadwinner of their families because their parents s…
Aid bureaucracy, suspicion threaten to deepen South Sudan crisis: MSF
GENEVA (Reuters) – The humanitarian crisis created by South Sudan’s civil war may well worsen this year because of the slow international response and suspicions among warring parties of U.N. relief efforts, the head of aid agency Medecins Sans Frontie…
French Greens will not join newly formed government: sources
PARIS (Reuters) – The French Greens party will not take part in a newly formed government under Prime Minister Manuel Valls, parliamentary sources said on Tuesday, breaking out of a ruling coalition with the Socialist Party.
German airliner hostage-taking ends after brief standoff
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Kosovo man took a flight attendant hostage on a German airliner on Tuesday but surrendered to police after a brief standoff, police said.
Prominent Islamist killed on Kenyan coast: witnesses
MOMBASA (Reuters) – A prominent Kenyan Islamist, accused by the United States and U.N. Security Council of supporting the Somali militant group al Shabaab, was killed on Tuesday on the Kenyan coast, a police officer at the scene and a witness said.
