Britain’s Osborne defends welfare cuts after church attacks
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government on Monday defended a raft of new welfare spending cuts, a key plank of efforts to rein in spending as the economy flounders, after church leaders attacked the changes as unjust.
U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid saber-rattling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the U.S. commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea.
Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pull back from a rebel-held village which has seen heavy recent fighting.
U.N. set to sanction three North Koreans, two entities: draft
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is set to blacklist two North Korean enterprises and three individuals working for North Korean entities involved in arms trade and Pyongyang’s missile program, according to a draft resolution.
South Africa holds memorial for Mozambican dragged along road
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hundreds of mourners, including politicians and colleagues, gathered on Wednesday for a memorial service for Mido Macia, the Mozambican taxi driver who died in a South African cell after being dragged behind a police vehicle.
U.S. envoy walks out of nuclear meeting over Iran’s Israel remark
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog stormed out of an agency meeting on Wednesday in protest when Iran’s representative accused Israel of “genocide”, diplomats said
Mourning Venezuelans parade Chavez’s coffin, prepare for election
CARACAS (Reuters) – Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in a flood of emotion that allies hope will help his deputy win an election and keep his self-styled revolution alive.
Greece confident aid tranche to be paid, denies talks deadlocked
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece is confident of getting an aid tranche due this month, its finance minister said on Wednesday, dismissing speculation that talks with foreign lenders on cutting its bloated public sector were deadlocked.
France says terror chiefs killed in Mali
PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday a military campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali has killed “terrorist leaders”, without clarifying whether he was referring to two al Qaeda commanders reported dead last …
U.N. partially lifts arms embargo on Somalia for a year
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council agreed on Wednesday to partially lift a decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for one year, allowing the government in Mogadishu to buy light weapons to strengthen its security forces to fight al Qaeda…
