Iran digs in heels on enrichment at nuclear talks
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran said on Saturday it cannot accept any agreement with six major powers that does not recognise what it describes as its right to enrich uranium, a demand the United States and its European allies have repeatedly rejected.
China bolsters East China Sea claim, warns of ‘defensive measures’
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China on Saturday bolstered its claim to islands that Japan says it owns, warning that it would take “defensive emergency measures” against aircraft that failed to identify themselves properly in airspace over them.
Opposition marches in Venezuela ahead of local elections
CARACAS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched in Venezuela on Saturday to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’s government before December 8 local elections after their leader denounced the pre-dawn arrest of one of his aides.
Islamists poised to enter parliament as Mauritania goes to polls
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – Voters in Mauritania went to the polls in Saturday in legislative and local elections expected to bring a once-outlawed Islamist party into parliament for the first time.
Bombs kill nine and wound 54 in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A car bomb and a suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 54 in northern Iraq on Saturday, police and medical sources said, in the latest of a wave of attacks in crowded public places.
Angolan police kill opposition member, detain 292 protesters
LUANDA (Reuters) – Angolan security forces shot and killed an opposition activist on Saturday, hours ahead of protests across the country where police detained 292 people.
Insight: China’s Xi fails to earn stripes as anti-graft ‘tiger’ hunt underwhelms
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has raised expectations he will tackle corruption much more forcefully than his predecessors, but official data on investigations suggests the crackdown so far is little different to previous years.
Insight: Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s master builder
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has rattled the United States with his nuclear threats and bemused the world with his penchant for funfairs, Disney and Dennis Rodman.
Islamist group calls Tiananmen attack ‘jihadi operation’: SITE
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Islamist militant group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party said a deadly car crash in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on October 28 was a “jihadi operation” by holy warriors, the SITE monitoring service said.
Latvian president calls store collapse that killed 54 ‘murder’
RIGA (Reuters) – Rescue workers late on Saturday stopped searching the rubble of a supermarket collapse that killed at least 54 people in a disaster that Latvia’s president called “murder”.
