Ukraine protesters vow to stay on streets despite police threat
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian pro-Europe demonstrators vowed to stay on the streets and continue their blockade of government buildings, despite a police threat to crack down “harshly” to enforce a court order that they disperse.
France vows immediate action in Central African Republic after battle
BANGUI (Reuters) – France said it would act immediately in Central African Republic after securing U.N. backing to halt sectarian violence that rocked the capital on Thursday and risked escalating into widespread civilian massacres.
Russia launches criminal inquiry into U.S. child exchanges
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authorities in Moscow said Thursday they are investigating whether Russian children adopted by American families were illegally trafficked in the United States. The probe comes in response to a Reuters series that showed how U.S. par…
Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 52 at Yemeni defense ministry
SANAA (Reuters) – A suicide bomber and gunmen wearing army uniforms attacked Yemen’s defense ministry on Thursday, killing 52 people including foreign medical staff, government sources said, in the country’s worst militant assault in 18 months.
Gunmen kill U.S. teacher in Libya’s Benghazi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead an American teacher working in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday more than a year after Islamist militants stormed the U.S. consulate there, killing the U.S. ambassador and three others.
Lebanese soldier killed in clashes with Sunni militants
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – A Lebanese soldier was killed on Thursday evening during clashes with Sunni Muslim fighters in the coastal city of Tripoli after the army tried to storm a Sunni area, a security source said.
Insight – Fukushima water tanks: leaky and built with illegal labor
NAHA, Japan (Reuters) – Storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear plant like one that spilled almost 80,000 gallons of radioactive water this year were built in part by workers illegally hired in one of the poorest corners of Japan, say labor regulators a…
U.S. assures Israel that core Iran sanctions still in place
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that core sanctions against Iran would remain in place despite its interim nuclear deal with world powers.
Syrian opposition alleges new poison gas attack
AMMAN (Reuters) – Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of using poison gas in Syria’s civil war on Thursday, and said victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth.
Ukraine police give protesters deadline, PM brands them ‘Nazis’
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian police on Thursday warned pro-Europe protesters they faced a “harsh” crackdown if they did not end their occupation of public offices in Kiev, while President Viktor Yanukovich’s prime minister denounced them as “Nazis and cr…
