China complains government building ban being flouted
BEIJING (Reuters) – A ban on the construction of new government buildings in China is not being enforced effectively, the government said on Friday, ordering a new crackdown to ensure promises are kept to rein in extravagance and pervasive corruption.
Mexico lower house greenlights electoral reform
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s lower house on Thursday gave general approval to an electoral reform demanded by the opposition, helping pave the way for Congress to focus on an energy bill at the center of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s economic agen…
U.S. assures Israel that core Iran sanctions still in place
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that core sanctions against Iran would remain in place despite its interim nuclear deal with world powers.
Nelson Mandela, from apartheid fighter to president and unifier
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the world.
South Africa, world mourn ‘giant for justice’ Mandela
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral …
Ukraine protesters vow to stay on streets despite police threat
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian pro-Europe demonstrators vowed to stay on the streets and continue their blockade of government buildings, despite a police threat to crack down “harshly” to enforce a court order that they disperse.
France vows immediate action in Central African Republic after battle
BANGUI (Reuters) – France said it would act immediately in Central African Republic after securing U.N. backing to halt sectarian violence that rocked the capital on Thursday and risked escalating into widespread civilian massacres.
Russia launches criminal inquiry into U.S. child exchanges
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authorities in Moscow said Thursday they are investigating whether Russian children adopted by American families were illegally trafficked in the United States. The probe comes in response to a Reuters series that showed how U.S. par…
Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 52 at Yemeni defense ministry
SANAA (Reuters) – A suicide bomber and gunmen wearing army uniforms attacked Yemen’s defense ministry on Thursday, killing 52 people including foreign medical staff, government sources said, in the country’s worst militant assault in 18 months.
Gunmen kill U.S. teacher in Libya’s Benghazi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead an American teacher working in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday more than a year after Islamist militants stormed the U.S. consulate there, killing the U.S. ambassador and three others.
