China to end use of prisoners’ organs for transplants in mid-2014
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – China, the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, plans to end the controversial practice by the middle of next year, a senior official said on Saturday….
Japan, Russia agree to cooperate on security as China rises
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan and Russia held their first joint defense and foreign ministers’ meeting on Saturday and agreed to boost security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific as they both warily watch neighboring China’s rising influence.
China says Tiananmen attackers carried out reconnaissance trips
BEIJING (Reuters) – Eight suspected Islamist separatists behind a deadly attack in the Chinese capital had carried out three reconnaissance trips and collected 400 liters of fuel in preparation for their assault on Tiananmen Square, state media said.
China says will stamp out Dalai Lama’s voice in Tibet
BEIJING (Reuters) – China aims to stamp out the voice of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in his restive and remote homeland by ensuring that his “propaganda” is not received by anyone on the internet, television or other means, a top off…
U.S. wants ‘inclusive’ Iraq: Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday to build a more inclusive democracy in his country and said the United States would cooperate with Iraq as it tries to push back a resurgent al Qaeda.
Four extra sites opened to search for U.S. troops missing in Vietnam
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vietnam advised the United States at the start of high-level talks this week it would open four additional sites to investigators seeking the remains of American military personnel missing since the Vietnam War, a senior U.S. def…
Pakistani Taliban chief killed in drone strike
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The head of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday, security and Taliban sources said, in a blow to the fragmented movement fighting against the nuclear-armed South Asian nation.
Africans push deferral of Kenya trials with U.N. draft resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Rwanda, Togo and Morocco circulated among U.N. Security Council members on Friday a draft resolution to defer the International Criminal Court trials of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto for one yea…
UK: Snowden reporter’s partner involved in ‘espionage’ and ‘terrorism’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in “terrorism” when he tried to carry documents from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden through a London airport in August,…
German, Brazilian U.N. draft urges halt to excessive spying
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Germany and Brazil circulated a draft resolution to a U.N. General Assembly committee on Friday that calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, data collection and other gross invasions of privacy.
