Venezuela charges five officials with embezzling China funds
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested five officials and charged them with embezzling $84 million from a China-financed development fund administered by state-run development bank Bandes, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday.
U.S. tells Egyptian army to exercise ‘maximum restraint’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department on Monday called on the Egyptian army to exercise “maximum restraint” in dealing with protesters after at least 51 people were killed when the military opened fire on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mu…
France gives asylum to Ukrainian topless feminist activist
PARIS (Reuters) – France has granted asylum to a feminist activist who hacked down a Christian cross last year in Kiev with a chainsaw, the Ukrainian woman said on Monday.
White House says it is concerned about Egypt violence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States remains concerned about the increasing violence and political polarization in Egypt, and has called on the transitional authority in Egypt to avoid reprisals, arrests and restrictions on the media, White House s…
France’s Sarkozy returns to political stage in party appeal
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy made his first political appearance since losing power, staging an appeal to hundreds of conservative lawmakers on Monday to help save the UMP party from financial ruin.
Maine has no plans to halt oil rail shipments after Quebec tragedy
BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) – Maine has no plans to review shipments of crude through the state on rail lines after a deadly oil train derailment just across the border in Quebec’s Lac-Megantic over the weekend, the state’s Department of Transportation…
Egypt’s lesson for political Islam: politics comes first
PARIS (Reuters)- When the Muslim Brotherhood won power it seemed Egypt’s nascent democracy would allow the movement to realize its dream of making Islam the guiding principle in politics.
South African police arrest five for botched circumcision deaths
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police have arrested five people on suspicion of murder for botched circumcisions that led to the deaths of about 30 boys in coming-of-age rituals in the rural Eastern Cape province, a police spokeswoman said on M…
Russia doubts new Syria opposition head’s commitment to peace
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday that remarks by the new leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition have raised questions about his dedication to a political solution of the conflict, and urged the group to commit to attending a peace c…
Battles intensify in Syria’s strategic city of Homs
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops fought with rebels in Homs on Monday in a battle seen as crucial to the government’s attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held areas and establish links between the capital and President Bashar al-Assad’s coasta…
