Human Rights Watch chides China for failing to push reform
BEIJING (Reuters) – New York-based Human Rights Watch accused China on Tuesday of failing to embark upon political reforms which meet the people’s demands for real change and of pursuing anti-corruption activists despite its declared crackdown on graft…
Russia urges Europe not to interfere in Ukraine, fears growing crisis
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged European governments on Tuesday not to interfere in Ukraine’s political crisis and expressed concern that events in Kiev could be spinning out of control.
Chief minister of India’s capital spends cold night on streets in police protest
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Sleeping on the pavement, conducting official duties from a parked car and calling himself an anarchist in a sit-in protest against the police, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has taken an unconventional approach to governing…
China to start regular patrols from island in South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will base a 5,000-tonne civilian patrol ship on one of the main islands it controls in the disputed South China Sea and begin regular patrols, an official newspaper said on Tuesday, a move likely to add fuel to territorial dis…
Japan’s scrambles against Chinese planes soar
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese fighter jets scrambled against Chinese planes a record number of times in April-December, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, as Sino-Japanese ties are strained by an island spat and disputes stemming from Tokyo’s wartime p…
Gunmen kill leading figure of Yemeni Shi’ite group
SANAA (Reuters) – Unknown assailants shot dead a leader of the Yemeni Shi’ite Muslim Houthi group in Sanaa on Tuesday while driving to attend the final session of reconciliation talks aimed at tackling the country’s political and security challenges.
China executes man for raping, murdering sex slaves
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Tuesday executed a man who held six women as sex slaves in an underground prison and killed two of them, state news agency Xinhua said, in a crime which shocked the nation.
Japan fishermen take cover to slaughter dolphins in face of Western criticism
TAIJI, Japan (Reuters) – Japanese fishermen drove a large group of dolphins into the shallows and killed at least 30 on Tuesday, hiding themselves behind a tarpaulin, as the annual dolphin hunt that sparked protest in the West entered its final stages….
Super typhoon victims flee again as rains flood southern Philippines
BUTUAN CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – Emergency workers evacuated thousands of people across the southern Philippines on Tuesday, including many already made homeless by a typhoon in November, after three days of rain flooded towns and farmland.
Detained Iraqi Shi’ite militia chief threatens to kill politicians
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A Shi’ite militia leader arrested in Iraq after his group fired mortars into Saudi Arabia has said leaders of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s political bloc will be killed unless he is released within 24 hours.
