Analysis: Big poll win for Japan PM Abe’s party could defeat bold economy reform
TOKYO (Reuters) – Will the real Shinzo Abe please stand up?
U.S. boss held captive by angry Chinese employees released
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese factory workers on Thursday released their U.S. boss whom they had held captive for a week over a compensation dispute, a company official said.
Mongolian president wins second term amid focus on mining curbs
ULAN BATOR (Reuters) – Mongolia’s incumbent president, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, who wants more controls on foreign mining investments, has emerged as the winner of Wednesday’s polls with a narrow majority of votes cast, the country’s election commission said…
Tunisia frees three Europeans jailed for topless feminist protest
TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian court on Wednesday decided to release three European feminist activists who staged a topless protest in Tunis last month against the Islamist-led government.
Venezuelan government says recording proves opposition plots
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government released a recording on Wednesday of a well-known opposition lawmaker apparently criticizing the head of the opposition coalition and accusing him of meeting U.S. officials to provoke a crisis in the OPEC nati…
Egypt’s Mursi offers to listen, opponents unimpressed
CAIRO (Reuters) – President Mohamed Mursi offered opponents a say in amending Egypt’s constitution, but railed against “enemies” he accused of undermining the new democracy in a defiant speech ahead of mass protests planned to demand that he step down….
Fresh protests in Brazil despite government concessions
BRASILIA/BELO HORIZONTE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Wednesday in new demonstrations calling for a crackdown on corruption and better public services, just a day after Congress ceded to some of the key demands galv…
Fresh protests in Brazil despite government concessions
BRASILIA/BELO HORIZONTE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Wednesday in new demonstrations calling for a crackdown on corruption and better public services, just a day after Congress ceded to some of the key demands galv…
Snowden still at airport, Ecuador asylum decision could take months
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A former U.S. spy agency contractor facing charges of espionage remained in hiding at a Moscow airport on Wednesday while the prospect grew of a protracted wrangle over his fate.
U.S. judge throws out Abu Ghraib detainees’ torture case
(Reuters) – CACI International Inc has won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of conspiring to torture detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, as the defense contractor benefited from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision over alleged human…
