Tunisian opposition demands Islamist government quit
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s secular opposition said on Friday that the governing Islamists must quit power before they would join negotiations to resolve the country’s worst crisis since its Arab Spring revolt, declaring otherwise the talks would be a …
U.N. combat brigade fires on Congo rebel positions
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – A new U.N. combat brigade formed to try to neutralize armed groups in Congo by force if needed fired artillery at M23 rebels menacing the eastern border city of Goma anew, U.N. and Congolese military offic…
Long-term nerve damage feared after Syria chemical attack
LONDON (Reuters) – Even those who survived the suspected chemical weapons attack in Damascus – and many hundreds didn’t – may have life-long disabilities and health problems for which there are few effective treatments.
Gambling queen Pansy Ho primes business empire for a new Macau
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Pansy Ho, Hong Kong’s richest woman and the daughter of Macau gambling godfather Stanley Ho, is lining up her chips for a new era in the world’s casino capital that promises much more than gambling.
UK says it thinks Syria’s Assad was behind chemical attack
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday it believed forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were responsible for a chemical weapons attacks in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, saying it thought the Syrian government had “something to hide…
Rebels smuggling Syria chemical weapons strike evidence to U.N. experts
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian activists say they are smuggling out body tissue samples from victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus and are trying to get them to a team of United Nations inspectors staying in a hotel a few miles away…
UK’s Hague says believes Syria’s Assad behind chemical attack
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday it believed forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were responsible for a chemical weapons attacks in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, saying it thought the Syrian government had “something to hide…
Insight: In Fukushima end-game, radiated water has nowhere to go
TOKYO (Reuters) – In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear plant was destroyed by a triple meltdown in March 2011, the plant’s owner turned to three of Japan’s largest construction companies for a quick fix to store radiated water that was pooling in t…
Russia: Syrian rebels preventing probe into alleged chemical attack
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday Syria’s opposition was preventing an objective investigation into allegations the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack.
Former BBC radio host in court to face sex charges
LONDON (Reuters) – One of Britain’s best-known radio presenters from the 1970s and 1980s, who counted Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, appeared in court on Friday accused of sex offences over a 30-year period.
