China sends graft busters to more provinces, government departments
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sent anti-corruption investigators to six more provinces and four government departments, the Chinese Communist Party’s corruption watchdog said on Monday, in the government’s latest move to tackle graft.
Eight dead after plane crashes in northern Bolivia: hospital
LA PAZ (Reuters) – A Bolivian plane carrying 18 people crashed on Sunday while trying to land during bad weather in the north of the Andean country, killing eight passengers and injuring the others on board, the director of a local hospital told Reuter…
Insight: Won for the money: North Korea experiments with exchange rates
SEOUL (Reuters) – In a dimly-lit Pyongyang toyshop packed with Mickey Mouse picture frames and plastic handguns, a basketball sells for 46,000 Korean People’s Won – close to $500 at North Korea’s centrally planned exchange rate.
Toronto mayor urges police to release video, apologizes for ‘mistakes’
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Sunday urged his police chief to release a video that media reports say show him smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and issued a broad apology for mistakes in his past, including public drunkenness.
Kerry sees signs Egypt moving back towards democracy
CAIRO (Reuters) – A day before Egypt’s deposed Islamist president goes on trial, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday expressed guarded optimism about a return to democracy in the country during a tour partly aimed at easing tensions with major…
East Libya movement launches government, challenges Tripoli
BENGHAZI/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) – Leaders of an autonomy movement in Libya’s oil-rich east unilaterally declared a regional government on Sunday, in a challenge to the weak central government as new violence erupted in the restive region.
In China’s Xinjiang, poverty, exclusion are greater threat than Islam
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – In the dirty backstreets of the Uighur old quarter of Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in China’s far west, Abuduwahapu frowns when asked what he thinks is the root cause of the region’s festering problem with violence and unrest.
Another Canadian freight train derails in Alberta, no injuries
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying lumber and sulfur dioxide derailed in the Western Canadian province of Alberta on Sunday, but there were no injuries or spills of dangerous goods, a spokesman for the railway said.
India throws rings of protection around divisive candidate Modi
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – – Indian security forces are preparing for one of their most challenging assignments in decades, protecting prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in a country with a grim history of political assassinations.
Less sin, more Shrek in Macau as China takes aim in corruption fight
MACAU (Reuters) – The media scrum surrounding the politically connected chairman of a Chinese financial services company was interested in one particular unpaid loan.
