Hollande turns to robots, driverless cars to revive French industry
PARIS (Reuters) – Francois Hollande laid out a 10-year roadmap on Thursday to revive French industry by promoting new technologies to drive job creation, but which offered little public money from stretched state coffers.
Turkey to unveil reforms key to Kurdish peace next week: Erdogan says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he would announce next week a package of reforms designed to strengthen democracy and keep on track a fragile peace process to end an insurgency by Kurdish militants.
Turkey’s Erdogan says Assad buying time on chemical weapons
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he doubted President Bashar al-Assad would fulfill his pledge to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, accusing him of buying time for new “massacres”.
Bulgaria eyes trial early next year over killing of Israelis
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria intends to put suspects in a bus bombing that killed five Israelis on trial early next year, even if they have to be judged in absentia, the country’s chief prosecutor said on Thursday.
UK: Syria weapons deal must identify, secure all arms
LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday any deal to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control had to be enforceable and ensure the arsenal did not fall into the wrong hands.
Satellite image suggests North Korea has restarted Yongbyon nuclear reactor: U.S. group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Satellite imagery suggests North Korea has restarted a research reactor capable of producing plutonium for weapons at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a U.S. research institute and a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Women and children among dead in Syrian Alawite village: monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The death toll from an alleged massacre in an Alawite village in central Syria has risen to 22, including women, children and elderly men, a rights monitoring group said on Thursday.
Women and children among dead in Syrian Alawite village: monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The death toll from an alleged massacre in an Alawite village in central Syria has risen to 22, including women, children and elderly men, a rights monitoring group said on Thursday.
Syrian airforce bombs hospital in north: activists and video
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes have bombed one of the main hospitals serving rebel-held territory in the north of the country, according to activists and video footage.
Polish government’s majority cut again after MP quits
WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish ruling coalition had only 232 seats in parliament to the opposition’s 228 on Thursday after the departure of Jacek Zalek from the governing Civic Platform party, the third lawmaker to quit in just over three weeks.
