India’s Modi moves quickly to secure coalition support to form new government
NEW DELHI: India’s caretaker Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun the process of forming a coalition government, launching swiftly into…
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Analysis-Pope’s friends, observers try to make sense of homophobic PR disaster
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from…
BJP seeks allies after election upset
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party was in talks with key allies to form a government, after failing to secure an…
A year after Greece migrant boat tragedy, answers and justice still out of reach
ATHENS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler…
Modi’s allies want funds, cabinet jobs as India coalition talks begin
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD (Reuters) -Regional parties in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance demanded on Thursday more funds for their states…
Dutch nationalist Wilders eyes win as Netherlands kicks off EU voting
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders looked set for new electoral gains on Thursday as the Netherlands kicks off…
Vietnam tycoon on death row for massive fraud illegally moved money overseas, police say
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, sentenced to death in the country's largest-ever financial fraud case,…
Czech train crash kills four, injures more than 20
PRAGUE (Reuters) -Four people died and more than 20 were injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train…
Hong Kong experiences a ‘much warmer’ spring
HONG KONG: Hong Kong experienced a much warmer spring with well-above-normal temperatures in March and April, the Hong Kong Observatory…