As U.S. averts default, Japan and China brace for next dollar drama
HONG KONG/TOKYO (Reuters) – Deal or no deal, the U.S. Congress’ dance with default impressed policymakers and investors in China and Japan with just how vulnerable their own economic revival plans are to the next political tantrum on Capitol Hill.
South Africans demand vigilante justice after child murders
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hundreds of South Africans burned tires outside a township police station on Friday and demanded the handover for vigilante justice of a fifth suspect arrested for the rape and murder of two toddlers, a crime that has shocked t…
Five Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide attack on military base
ADEN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least five Yemeni soldiers on Friday in a suspected Islamist militant attack on a military base in the south of the country, a Yemeni military official said.
Tunisian police kill two Islamist militants in clashes
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants and arrested others from the hardline group Ansar al-Sharia after two policemen were killed in fighting near the Algerian border, a senior security source said on Friday.
Italian protests against Letta government disrupt transport
ROME (Reuters) – Civil servants, hospital staff and transport workers went on strike on Friday in protest against Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s government, causing disruptions in Rome and across the country.
Saudi Arabia, angered over Mideast, declines Security Council seat
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented show of anger at the failure of the international community to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues, said on Friday it would not take up its seat on the United Nations Security Co…
SPD leader says Germany must ‘fight for Europe’
BERLIN (Reuters) – In his first speech since agreeing to coalition talks with Angela Merkel’s conservatives, the leader of the Social Democrats delivered an impassioned defense of European bailouts, saying Germany’s own success hinged on that of its ne…
French far-right suspends candidate over chimp slur
PARIS (Reuters) – A local election candidate who equated France’s black justice minister with a monkey on her Facebook page was suspended by the far-right National Front on Friday after being exposed on television.
Pussy Riot member drops release plea to support band mate
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Reuters) – Pussy Riot punk band member Maria Alyokhina on Friday dropped her plea for early release from jail to show support for a band mate on hunger strike to protest against prison conditions.
China outraged as Japanese lawmakers visit shrine to war dead
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s internal affairs minister and more than 100 other lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Friday and China responded by accusing Japan of undermining ties and trying to overturn the post-World War Two order.
