France may revise transport tax after trucker, farmer strike
PARIS (Reuters) – France will consider revising a proposed tax on heavy road transport following go-slow operations by farmers and truck drivers who say it will add to their economic problems, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said on Wednesday.
Freed Chinese cartoonist refuses to be cowed by Internet crackdown
BEIJING (Reuters) – Political cartoonist Wang Liming has spent three years publishing caricatures skewering China’s leaders and is no stranger to the country’s police. But it was a microblog post that got him into trouble last week.
Insight: The struggle to tame Africa’s beast of a megacity
LAGOS (Reuters) – A walk along the two kilometers of light rail that Lagos authorities have managed to build in three years gives a sense of how hard it is to impose order on one of Africa’s most chaotic cities.
Australians evacuate homes as hot winds fan Sydney fire threat
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians were urged to evacuate their homes on Wednesday as dry winds threatened to fan a firestorm in mountainous bushland around Sydney, where firefighters battled to control blazes which have been raging for a week…
U.S. broke international law by killing civilians with drones: rights groups
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human rights groups on Tuesday accused the United States of breaking international law and perhaps committing war crimes by killing civilians in missile and drone strikes that were intended to hit militants in Pakistan and Yemen….
Saudi Arabia warns of shift away from U.S. over Syria, Iran
DOHA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Upset at President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowes…
Focus on Arab states to fill Saudi Security Council seat, Kuwait a front-runner
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented rejection of a U.N. Security Council place has pushed the world body into uncharted territory, but fellow Gulf nation Kuwait is emerging as an early front-runner to fill the seat.
Focus on Arab states to fill Saudi Security Council seat, Kuwait a front-runner
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented rejection of a U.N. Security Council place has pushed the world body into uncharted territory, but fellow Gulf nation Kuwait is emerging as an early front-runner to fill the seat.
Greece cuts off state funding to far-right Golden Dawn party
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek lawmakers voted to cut off state funding to the far-right Golden Dawn party early on Wednesday, the latest effort by the government to clamp down on a party it has branded a “neo-Nazi criminal gang”.
Lawyer for accused al Qaeda figure says case will take months to prepare
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The defense attorney for an alleged senior al Qaeda figure captured in Libya earlier this month said on Tuesday it will take several months to sort through hundreds of thousands of documents before the case can proceed.
