Ouattara to return to Ivory Coast on Sunday: aide
PARIS (Reuters) – President Alassane Ouattara is due to return to Ivory Coast on Sunday after an operation in a French hospital this month, an aide said on Thursday.
Fearing their homeland, Afghan asylum seekers find refuge in Brussels church
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Afghan refugees have set up camp in a Brussels church, protesting against their imminent deportation to their home country, which they say is not safe.
Japan Red Cross says plans talks for return of remains from North Korea
TOKYO (Reuters) – Officials from the Japanese and North Korean affiliates of the Red Cross will hold talks next week on the return of the remains of Japanese nationals from North Korea, a Japanese Red Cross official said on Thursday.
German court clears disgraced former president of corruption
HANOVER (Reuters) – A German court cleared Christian Wulff on Thursday of corruption charges for accepting about 700 euros in expenses at a beer festival when he was a state premier, ending the country’s first post-war trial of a former president.
U.S. envoy tells China, Japan to lower temperature in sea row
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Japan must ease tension in the disputed East China Sea to avoid severe “unintended consequences”, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Thursday, days before he steps down as Washington’s first Chinese-American envoy…
India infrastructure splurge too late for this – or next – government
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s drive to break an infrastructure investment logjam has come too late to revive the economy before the forthcoming general election – and it could be years before it pays growth dividends for the next government.
India infrastructure splurge too late for this – or next – government
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s drive to break an infrastructure investment logjam has come too late to revive the economy before the forthcoming general election – and it could be years before it pays growth dividends for the next government.
Japan Red Cross says talks planned for return of remains from North Korea
TOKYO (Reuters) – Officials from the Japanese and North Korean chapters of the Red Cross will hold talks next week towards the return of the remains of Japanese nationals from North Korea, a Japanese Red Cross official said on Thursday.
Morocco suspends judicial cooperation with ally France
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco said it had suspended judicial cooperation agreements with France in a growing diplomatic row with its former colonial ruler over allegations of human rights abuses.
China denies detained Uighur professor access to lawyer
BEIJING (Reuters) – A prominent Uighur economist who has been charged with separatism in China’s far western Xinjiang region was denied access to legal counsel on Thursday, his lawyer said, on grounds that the case involves “state secrets”.
