Malawi to feed poor with cash from selling president’s jet
LILONGWE (Reuters) – Malawi plans to use the $15 million it gained from selling its presidential jet to feed the more than 1 million people suffering chronic food shortages, the Treasury said on Thursday.
Obama, Japan’s Abe discuss Syria crisis at G20
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared the view that chemical weapons use in Syria was a violation of international law that must be addressed.
Russia keeps up pressure on Belarus over potash arrest
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia piled the pressure on neighbor Belarus over the detention of the head of Russian potash maker Uralkali, saying on Thursday the arrest was not acceptable and signaling lower oil supplies.
Military solution in Syria would be futile, Pope tells Putin
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the G20 conference, on Thursday urged world leaders to “lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution” in Syria.
Iran’s Khamenei warns of U.S. loss over intervention in Syria
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s most powerful authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday the United States was using a chemical attack in Syria’s civil war as a pretext to interfere in the country and warned it would suffer loss from any intervention…
Egypt minister says attack just ‘the beginning’
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s interior minister said a bomb attack on his convoy on Thursday was “not the end but the beginning” of a new wave of terrorism, but that the authorities would win out.
U.N. Syria envoy to press G20 leaders on peace conference
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – The U.N. special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will hold discussions on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit to push for an international conference to be held on ending Syria’s civil war.
Egyptian police kill two attackers trying to kill minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police killed two attackers who were trying to assassinate the interior minister in Cairo on Thursday, security officials said.
Russia tells Belarus that arrest of Uralkali head unacceptable
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told his Belarussian counterpart on Thursday that the arrest of the head of Russian potash maker Uralkali, which sparked a row between Moscow and Minsk, was not acceptable.
China says Manila stirring up trouble on disputed shoal
BEIJING (Reuters) – China accused the Philippines on Thursday of deliberately stirring up trouble over a chain of disputed reefs and rocks in the South China Sea, saying Manila was “creating trouble out of nothing” over an intrinsically Chinese territo…
