Japan’s Abe has chance to show true colors after big election win
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition scored a decisive victory in an election on Sunday — so big that there are suspicions he will lose interest in difficult economic reforms and pursue his nationalist agenda instead…
Halting Egypt’s wheat imports was Mursi’s biggest mistake: minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – The biggest mistake deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi made was stopping wheat imports, Egypt’s new minister of supplies said, pledging to ensure that supplies of a strategic good like wheat do not reach the critically low level…
Syrian Islamist rebel leader freed after clashes among rival rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The local commander of a Syrian rebel group affiliated to al Qaeda was freed on Sunday after being held by Kurdish forces during a power struggle between rival organizations fighting President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Egypt starts amending constitution despite political divisions
CAIRO (Reuters) – A panel of legal experts started work on Sunday to revise Egypt’s Islamist-tinged constitution, a vital first step on the road to fresh elections ordered by the army following its removal of Mohamed Mursi as president.
Nineteen Colombian soldiers killed in clashes with FARC rebels
TAME, Colombia (Reuters) – Nineteen Colombian soldiers were killed in clashes blamed on the country’s Marxist FARC guerrillas, defense ministry sources said on Sunday, the heaviest casualties the armed forces have suffered since the government began pe…
Woman jailed in Dubai after reporting rape hopes to warn others
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Norwegian interior designer jailed in Dubai for illicit sex after she reported being raped says she has no regrets about coming forward if her warning will protect others from a similar fate.
Gunmen kill five Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – Gunmen killed five members of the Kurdish security forces at a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday, bringing the day’s death toll from bombings and shootings across the whole country to 14.
Syrian forces kill at least 49 rebels near Damascus: monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces ambushed rebels in a strategic suburb near the capital Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 49 people, a pro-opposition monitoring group said.
Insight: Canadian train disaster a dark turn for rail veteran
(Reuters) – A blinding flash of orange light jarred Weyauwega residents awake before dawn on March 4, 1996. An 81-car freight train had been barreling toward the farm town in central Wisconsin when it jumped a broken rail. The train’s propane and petro…
Sukhoi jet has belly landing in Iceland
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Sukhoi Superjet made a belly landing during a test flight on Sunday at Iceland’s Keflavik airport in Reykjavik, according to a statement by its Russian manufacturer.
