Qatar signs aid deal worth $1.25 billion for Morocco
RABAT (Reuters) – Qatar and Morocco have signed an aid deal worth $1.25 billion, part of a five-year package of financial assistance extended by wealthy Gulf states to the North African kingdom to help it weather ‘Arab Spring’ protests.
Fire on Indian train kills at least 23 people
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed on Saturday in a fire on a train in southern India, authorities said.
Syrian forces kill 25 in Aleppo barrel-bomb attack: activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian army air strike on a vegetable market in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 25 people on Saturday, a monitoring group said, continuing a campaign of improvised “barrel bombs” that has drawn international condemnatio…
Zimbabwe ambassador to Australia seeks asylum: media
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Australia has asked for political asylum just days before her term ends saying she fears for her safety if she goes home, media reported on Saturday.
Taking power in New Delhi, ‘common man’ leader talks of revolution
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – There was no motorcade, and none of the traditional trappings of power: the leader of India’s upstart “common man party” arrived on a crowded metro train on Saturday to be sworn in as chief minister of Delhi, India’s capital.
Yemeni tribesmen blow up pipeline in south: local official
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemeni tribesmen blew up a pipeline in the eastern Hadramout province on Saturday, disrupting oil flow two days after they seized an Oil Ministry building in the region, a local government official said.
Lawmakers in Chinese city resign in mass bribery case
BEIJING (Reuters) – More than 500 lawmakers in a Chinese city have resigned after being implicated in a bribery scandal, while another 56 provincial legislators have been sacked, state media said on Saturday, as the government steps up its war on graft…
Thai protester killed as election tensions rise
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A Thai protester was killed and four wounded on Saturday, an emergency official said, when an unidentified gunman opened fire on demonstrators whose efforts to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have flared into violence in r…
China formally eases one-child policy, abolishes labor camps
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China formally approved on Saturday easing its decades-long one-child policy and the abolition of a controversial labor camp system, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
China court jails four security officials over watermelon vendor’s death: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese court jailed four security officials for up to 11 years over the death of a watermelon vendor, the official Xinhua news agency reported, an incident that triggered public outcry over perceived abuses of power by city patr…
