Congo’s Kabila pledges to implement reforms after national dialogue
DAKAR (Reuters) – Congo’s President Joseph Kabila pledged on Saturday to turn the recommendations from three weeks of national dialogue into policies to tackle the central African nation’s daunting social, institutional and economic problems.
Disabled Chinese rights lawyer freed, vows to sue police
BEIJING (Reuters) – A disabled Chinese rights lawyer whose imprisonment stirred international concern said on Saturday she had been released after serving her two and a half year sentence and pledged to sue the police as well as pursue redress for her …
Brazil opposition to join forces against Rousseff: source
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Two of Brazil’s most popular opposition leaders will join forces on Saturday, a party source told Reuters, an unexpected alliance that could pose a major challenge to President Dilma Rousseff in next year’s election.
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.
