China loses WTO bid to overturn U.S. law against unfair subsidies
GENEVA (Reuters) – China lost its bid to overturn U.S. legislation targeting unfair trade subsidies on Thursday, its second defeat in a World Trade Organization dispute within 24 hours.
U.N. launches investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations on Thursday launched an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed by both Sri Lankan state forces and Tamil rebels during their conflict that ended in 2009, saying the government had failed to investigate properl…
U.N. watchdog urges Obama to review deadly drone policy
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights watchdog called on the Obama administration on Thursday to review its use of drones to kill suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants abroad and reveal how it chose its targets.
Egypt army extends power by taking charge of Gulf aid
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army is taking charge of billions of dollars of development aid from the United Arab Emirates, an army official said, raising further doubts over the narrow separation of powers with the military backed administration in place…
Chinese man given death for serial rapes of underage girls
BEIJING (Reuters) – A man in eastern China was sentenced to death on Thursday for the serial rapes of 16 underage girls, some of whom he met online while posing as a teenage girl himself, state news agency Xinhua reported, a crime which shocked the nat…
Scottish financiers back independence as means of staying in EU
LONDON (Reuters) – A group of Scottish financiers came out in support of independence on Thursday to counter a flood of warnings over Scotland going it alone, cautioning that staying within the United Kingdom could mean losing European Union membership…
Protesters opposed to Myanmar census attack NGO offices
YANGON (Reuters) – Protesters in Myanmar’s Rakhine State opposed to a census attacked offices and houses used by international aid groups after reports a European staff member from one group had removed a Buddhist flag used as a symbol to boycott the o…
China sacks ally of former security chief as graft probe widens
BEIJING (Reuters) – A former aide to China’s retired domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang was sacked on Thursday after authorities opened a corruption probe, state media said, the latest move targeting associates of Zhou, who is also under investigati…
Philippines, Muslim rebels sign final peace deal to end conflict
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), on Thursday signed a final peace pact, ending about 45 years of conflict that has killed more than 120,000 people in the country’s south.
Cyprus U.N. envoy says economic crisis could aid peace deal
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus’s economic crisis could hasten a deal to end decades of enmity between the island’s estranged Greeks and Turks, its outgoing United Nations envoy said on Thursday.
