Japan’s Abe closer to deal on looser limits on military
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government and ruling party are close to a consensus on the need to ease the pacifist constitution’s constraints on the military’s ability to fight alongside allies abroad, but have yet to persuade…
In Iran, age mellows some former captors of U.S. hostages
ANKARA (Reuters) – Three decades after hardline students occupied the U.S. embassy and took diplomats hostage for 444 days, many of the now middle-aged revolutionaries are among the most vocal critics of Iran’s conservative establishment, officials and…
Murdered Iraqi-American woman found with mouse cable tangled in legs-investigator
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The trial of an Iraqi-American man accused of murdering his wife, a killing first investigated as a hate crime, resumed on Tuesday with investigators saying the victim was found on the floor near a computer, with a mouse cable tan…
South Korea says likely North drone flew over Seoul’s presidential palace
SEOUL (Reuters) – A drone found last week while probably returning to North Korea had flown over the presidential palace in the South before crashing near the border, but would not have been able to carry a bomb, an official said on Thursday.
Haitian government announces major cabinet reshuffle
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s prime minister announced a new cabinet, drafting in 10 new ministers in a major reshuffle designed to build political support amid controversial negotiations over long overdue parliamentary and municipal polls.
Former China mining boss denies charge of leading gang
BEIJING (Reuters) – A former Chinese mining magnate with suspected links to the eldest son of retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang has denied leading a 36-member gang on a crime spree of murder and gun-running over the past two decades.
Malaysia PM visits search base for missing jet; sub joins hunt
PERTH/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s prime minister visited the Australian search base for missing Flight MH370 on Thursday as a nuclear-powered submarine joined the near-four week hunt that has so far failed to find any sign of the missing airlin…
Reports of deaths at Chinese chemical protest false: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) – Reports that police killed 15 people and injured more than 300 during protests in southern China on Sunday are false, the website of the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper, reported on Thursday.
Guatemalan president eyes drug legalization proposal in late 2014
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala could present a plan to legalize production of marijuana and opium poppies towards the end of 2014 as it seeks ways to curb the power of organized crime, President Otto Perez said on Wednesday.
Russia could achieve Ukraine incursion in 3-5 days
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine’s border if it were to decide to carry out an “incursion” into the country, and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO’s top military commander said on Wednes…
