UNITED NATIONS/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Arab UN delegations yesterday endorsed a Palestinian proposal to forge a peace deal with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017, despite fierce Israeli and US opposition.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions yesterday on four more Russians for alleged human rights abuses, including two officials said to be involved in the cover-up of the death of a lawyer who died in prison after exposing large-scale corruption.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said yesterday that he has returned to work following a trip to Cuba for a medical check-up.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said today, as countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort.
SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – AirAsia was built up from two planes in 2001 to an airline industry titan that operates more than 180 jets in just over a decade but now faces its biggest ever challenge.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s most prominent dissidents say they have been kept in the dark by U.S.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s air force was searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that went missing today after the pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – From financial crisis in Russia to cyber warfare with North Korea, 2014 has generated new flashpoints right into its final days, setting 2015 up to be just as turbulent.
(Reuters) – It was the year of the family pet behaving badly: A dog got sick from eating dozens of socks and a puppy took the rap for driving the family car into a pond.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea called US President Barack Obama a “monkey” and blamed Washington yesterday for Internet outages it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of police from cities across the United States filled a New York City church and nearby streets yesterday for the funeral of one of two policemen shot by a man who said he was avenging the killing of unarmed black men by police.
(Reuters) – China’s trade will grow 3.5 per cent in 2014, implying the country will fall short of a current 7.5 per cent official growth target, according to a report on the Ministry of Commerce’s website that was subsequently revised to remove the numbers.
BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) – Syria said yesterday it was willing to participate in “preliminary consultations” in Moscow aimed at restarting talks next year to end its civil war but the Western-backed opposition dismissed the initiative.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden’s mainstream parties reached a deal on Saturday that will allow the minority centre-left government to remain in office and sideline the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, who hold the balance of power in parliament.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Slumping oil prices have put Russia’s economy on course for a sharp recession and double-digit inflation next year, government ministers said yesterday, as authorities scaled up a bailout for the first bank to succumb to this month’s rouble crisis.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – When one of the poorest countries in the Americas and a little-known Chinese businessman said they planned to undertake one of the biggest engineering projects in history, few people took them seriously.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo went on trial in Abidjan yesterday for her alleged role in stealing an election her husband lost in 2010 and resisting efforts to dislodge him in a civil war that followed.
ROME, (Reuters) – Nearly 1,250 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the Christmas period and five bodies have been recovered, Italian officials said on Friday.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran is to expand what it calls “smart filtering” of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content on websites without banning them completely, as it used to, the government said yesterday.
HONG KONG/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chen Zhenggao, a member of the Communist Party’s elite Central Committee, clearly has enemies.
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