(Reuters) – Japan is set to be nuclear power-free, for just the third time in more than four decades, and with no firm date for re-starting an energy source that has provided about 30 per cent of electricity to the world’s third-largest economy.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Top advisers to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff are urging her to cancel her planned state visit to the White House next month after revelations the US National Security Agency spied on her and other Brazilians.
GENEVA/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Russia and the United States put aside bitter differences over Syria to strike a deal today that by destroying President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical arsenal may avert U.S.
GENEVA/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – U.S.-Russian talks on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons program have reached a “pivotal point,” a U.S.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A lawyer accused two of Turkey’s corporate dynasties yesterday of backing the 1997 military overthrow of its first Islamist-led government, sending their shares tumbling on fears of a deepening vendetta against the country’s secular business elite.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – All four Indian men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi were sentenced to death yesterday, a decision the judge said sent a message to society that there can be no tolerance for such a savage crime.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Three-quarters of Americans support efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria through an international agreement to control chemical weapons, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows steady opposition to U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A fire killed 37 people in a Russian psychiatric hospital yesterday, the second deadly blaze at such a facility this year, heightening concerns about Russia’s treatment of the mentally ill and other vulnerable wards of the state.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. officials have warned energy companies to be on the alert for “potential terrorist activities” at fuel storage plants but there were no immediate threats, an oil industry group told members yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – All four Indian men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi were sentenced to death today, a decision the judge said sent a message to society that there can be no tolerance for such a savage crime.
GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United States and Russia began high-stakes talks yesterday on Moscow’s plan for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons as Damascus formally applied to join a global poison gas ban, but Secretary of State John Kerry underscored that U.S.
SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Behind China’s aggressive drive to root out corruption is Wang Qishan, a historian-turned-economist who once felt so bad about getting free parking that he reportedly sent a colleague back to pay the fee.
(Reuters) – A fast-moving fire that started in a custard shop raged through several blocks of boardwalk and businesses yesterday in Seaside Park, New Jersey, a shore town that was still rebuilding from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s new iPhones got panned by Wall Street yesterday as investors decried one model for being too costly for emerging markets such as China, and dismissed the other model as lacking enough game-changing features.
GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Diplomatic efforts to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control intensified yesterday while U.N.
ROME, (Reuters) – Disused church buildings should be used to house refugees, who must be embraced rather than feared, Pope Francis told asylum seekers in Rome on Tuesday, underlining his papacy’s emphasis on the poor and the plight of immigrants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House tried yesterday to smooth over a diplomatic row with Brazil, pledging to address concerns caused by reports that the United States had spied on President Dilma Rousseff and hacked into the computer networks of state-run oil company Petrobras.
WASHINGTON/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syria accepted a Russian proposal yesterday to give up chemical weapons but U.S.
THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s deputy president played an important role in the post-election bloodbath that engulfed Kenya in early 2008, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor told judges at the opening of his trial yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A deputy speaker of Britain’s parliament has been charged with several counts of sexual assault as well as rape, authorities said yesterday.
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