Yemen reopens airports after closure due to strike: minister
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen has reopened its international airports after a brief closure on Monday due to a strike by workers at the civil aviation authority, the transport minister told state news agency Saba.
Russia sends armored trucks to Syria to transport chemical arms
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has sent 25 armored trucks and 50 other vehicles to Syria to help transport toxins that are to be destroyed under an international agreement to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Mon…
Fears grow of civil war in South Sudan as rebels seize town
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s government said on Sunday rebels had seized the capital of a key oil-producing region and fears grew of all-out ethnic civil war in the world’s newest country.
South Korean union vows all-out strike in sympathy with rail workers
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s militant labor federation announced a general strike from Saturday in sympathy with rail workers, after police hauled away scores of strikers in a two-week dispute that has hit President Park Geun-hye’s popularity rating…
Analysis: Domestic concerns drive Oman’s newly assertive foreign policy
MUSCAT (Reuters) – Traditionally reticent Oman has become unusually assertive in opposing a Saudi plan for Gulf Arab states to close ranks against Iran, worried that a wider regional confrontation might threaten its own stability.
British Air plane wing clips building in Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A British Airways plane bound for London clipped its wing on a nearby building as it was preparing to take off from Johannesburg on Sunday, South Africa’s airports authority said.
Syrian helicopter bomb raids kill 42 in Aleppo: monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 42 people, including children, were killed on Sunday when Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised “barrel bombs” in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
Suicide bomber kills seven outside Libya’s Benghazi
BARSIS, Libya (Reuters) – A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives at an army checkpoint outside the city of Benghazi on Sunday, killing 13 soldiers in the first such attack in Libya’s deepening turmoil.
Analysis: Even if foreign troops leave Afghanistan, U.S. has some options
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials have warned of the potential for catastrophe if Afghan President Hamid Karzai fails to sign a security pact to permit foreign forces to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014.
China wants more party bosses reprimanded for ignoring graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party would like to see more party bosses held accountable for allowing corruption to happen on their watch, something that rarely happens now, a senior official told a newspaper on Monday.
