Russia dismisses Dutch legal action over Greenpeace activists
MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) – Russia shrugged off Dutch legal action over its detention and prosecution of Greenpeace activists for piracy on Saturday as protesters took to the streets internationally to call for the 30 detainees to be freed.
Iran’s Khamenei says part of diplomatic opening in New York ‘not proper’
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday he supported moderate President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic opening to the United States at the U.N. General Assembly last week but some aspects of it were “not proper”.
Syria submits further details of its chemical arms program
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a September 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the United Nations said on Friday.
Kerry calls government shutdown a brief disruption
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – The partial shutdown of the U.S. government, which entered its fifth day on Saturday, is a “momentary episode” and does not change the U.S. commitment to Asia or elsewhere, Secretary of State John Kerry said.
China’s capital to replace some coal-fired heating plants
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will replace four coal-burning heating plants in the capital Beijing with natural gas fired ones by the end of next year as it steps up efforts to clean up pollution, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
Libyan checkpoint ambush kills at least 12 soldiers
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 12 Libyan soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint near the city of Bani Walid, a former stronghold of supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, security officials said on Saturday.
Polish journalist abducted in Syria in July is alive: minister
WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish journalist who was taken hostage by Islamist militants in northwest Syria in July is alive, Poland’s foreign minister said on Saturday.
Hundreds of Sudanese protest, but numbers down after crackdown
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Several hundred Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Friday to demand the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but crowds were much smaller than last week, when protests provoked a bloody security crackdown.
Bus plunges down hillside outside Mexico City, killing 14
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 14 people died on Friday when a bus hurtled down a hillside on the outskirts of Mexico City, ejecting six victims through the windows and leaving 25 injured, police said.
Syria submits further details of its chemical arms program
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a September 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the United Nations said on Friday.
