Vietnam deputy police minister sacked amid corruption crackdown
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday fired the deputy police minister, the highest ranking police official to be removed in a corruption crackdown in the Communist-ruled country, the government said.
Senior Zimbabwe opposition leader Biti detained at Zambian border
Former Zimbabwean finance minister and opposition politician Tendai Biti has been detained by police as he tried to cross the border and seek asylum in neighboring Zambia, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Britain, France, mark centenary of decisive WW1 battle of Amiens
Britain and France on Tuesday marked 100 years since the decisive battle of Amiens that put Europe on the path to the end of World War One, in a sober ceremony in the northern French city’s Gothic cathedral.
Congo starts vaccinating health workers against Ebola
Congolese officials and the World Health Organization began vaccinating health workers against the deadly Ebola virus on Wednesday, to try to halt an outbreak in Congo’s volatile east.
Czech plane returns bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan to Prague
The bodies of three Czech soldiers killed in a suicide attack at the weekend in Afghanistan were returned to Prague on Wednesday in a ceremony marking the deadliest incident involving the army’s foreign missions in four years.
Nigeria’s Senate president urges parliamentary blockade probe
The leader of Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday called for an investigation into a blockade of parliament by security forces and said it was an attempt to secure his impeachment but stopped short of saying he would run for president next February.
Congo’s Kabila will not stand for election in December
Congo’s President Joseph Kabila will not stand in the election scheduled for December, a spokesman said, finally agreeing to obey a two-term limit but picking a hard-core loyalist under European Union sanctions to stand instead.
Senator Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin
Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul said on Wednesday he delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin proposing cooperation, weeks after Trump was widely condemned for not standing up to Putin at their Helsinki summi…
Saudi Arabia rules out mediation in Canada row, may take more measures
Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday there is no room for mediation in the kingdom’s deepening diplomatic dispute with Canada, and that Ottawa knew what it needed to do to “fix its big mistake”.
Anti-U.S. base governor of Japan’s Okinawa dies of cancer
Takeshi Onaga, the governor of Okinawa who opposed the sitting of a U.S. air base on the southern Japanese island, died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday. He was 67.
