CHINA indicated Friday that it opposes a U.S.-drafted resolution that would open a path for U.N. sanctions against those blocking peace and promoting violence in South Sudan. China’s U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi told a news conference that he saw no “logic” behind the proposed resolution at a time when the South Sudan government led by President Salva Kiir and opposition led by rebel leader Riek Machar are negotiating a peace agreement.
JAPAN Britain’s Prince William rings a bell of hope after witnessing from a hilltop the scope of the destruction by the March 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan, and visiting with parents whose children died in the disaster.
MALDIVES An opposition lawmaker in the Maldives says her party will press on with street protests until the government frees a former president and current opposition leader.
UK Newly published emails suggest the man who became known as “Jihadi John” had suicidal thoughts before leaving Britain for Syria. In an email exchange with the Mail on Sunday five years ago, he talked of taking too many sleeping pills and sleeping forever as a way to get away from British security service scrutiny. Mohammed Emwazi told a journalist at the newspaper in an email that he felt like a “dead man walking.”
GERMANY-GREECE Germany’s finance minister says he trusts Greece’s current government to fulfill the conditions for the bailout deal, but also made clear the country would not receive any further money if it didn’t. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag yesterday that “I trust them to implement the needed measures … and to ultimately fulfill its obligations.”
USA NASA astronauts ventured out yesterday on their third spacewalk in just over a week to complete an extensive, tricky cable job at the International Space Station.
SIERRA LEONE’s vice president has put himself in quarantine following the death from Ebola of one of his security guards. Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana is set to become acting president later Sunday when President Ernest Bai Koroma leaves Sierra Leone to attend a European Union conference on Ebola in Belgium. Sam-Sumana will carry out his duties as president from his home.
VENEZUELA will shrink the size of the U.S. Embassy staff, limit the activities of U.S. diplomats and require American citizens to apply for visas if they want to come bask on the beach.
BRAZILIAN authorities said Saturday they arrested a self-professed minister put on a U.S. most-wanted list for allegedly molesting two girls in a “Maidens Group” at his religious fellowship in rural Minnesota.
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