Vietnamese police arrest anti-government blogger
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese police have arrested an author and blogger for posting anti-government comments online, according to authorities, the latest in a crackdown on critics of the country’s Communist rulers.
U.S. studying Syria no-fly zone near Jordan border: diplomats
ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States is studying setting up a limited no-fly zone in Syria close to the southern border with Jordan, two senior Western diplomats in Turkey said on Friday.
Insight: France gambles on Syrian rebels as arms decision nears
PARIS (Reuters) – It’s a warm day on the Turkish-Syrian border. France’s recently recalled ambassador to Syria is incognito with his deputy and a security agent.
Seven charged in scandal threatening Czech PM: CTK agency
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech police have charged seven people after a sweep of government and private offices, the news agency CTK quoted a state attorney as saying on Friday.
Russia sees ends to U.S. row as Jewish texts moved to museum
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a years-long spat with the United States over thousands of Jewish religious writings should end now that some are on display in Moscow’s new Jewish museum.
TV channel offices attacked in Libya’s Benghazi
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A bomb exploded outside a television station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, damaging a wall but causing no injuries, an employee said.
TV channel offices attacked in Libya’s Benghazi
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A bomb exploded outside a television station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, damaging a wall but causing no injuries, an employee said.
Nicaraguan assembly OKs $40 billion Chinese canal to rival Panama’s
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers granted a 50-year concession to a Chinese company on Thursday for it to design, build and manage a shipping channel across the Central American nation that would compete with the Panama Canal.
Mandela’s health improving but condition still ‘serious’
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela continues to recover from a lung infection but his condition remains serious, the South African government said on Thursday.
Iran vote could bring change of style, perhaps not substance
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran votes on Friday in a presidential election unlikely to result in seismic shifts in its troubled relations with the West and Gulf Arab neighbors, but which could bring a softening of the confrontational style personified by outgoi…
