Vatican says ‘amoral’ financial system needs infusion of ethics, more regulation
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican called for more regulation of markets and financial systems on Thursday, saying economic crises showed they were not able to govern themselves and needed a strong injection of morality and ethics.
South Korea offers to mediate to clear doubts over North Korea-U.S. summit
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Thursday it intends to play the role of mediator after North Korea threatened to pull out of a summit with the United States aimed at the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
Mahathir warns many figures on Malaysia’s financial position are false
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday many of the figures recording the country’s financial position may be false, but he did not offer any evidence or say which data he was referring to.
EU firms will make their own call on Iran business: Macron
SOFIA (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Europe would try to protect its companies doing business with Iran from U.S. sanctions, reimposed over Tehran’s nuclear program, but said giants like Total would make their own choices…
Egypt’s military kills 19, arrests 20 in Sinai operation
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s military and police forces have killed 19 militants in an exchange of gunfire and arrested 20 suspects, in a continuing crackdown in Sinai, the military said in a statement on Thursday.
Russia postpones bill making U.S. sanctions compliance a crime
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian lawmakers on Thursday voted to postpone the second reading of a bill being discussed in the lower house of parliament that would make it a crime to comply with Western sanctions on Russia.
Turkey condemns Halkbank sentencing as political attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey condemned the sentencing of an executive from one of its state-owned banks as a political attack by the United States on Thursday, after a New York court handed down a 32 month prison sentence in an Iran-sanctions busting ca…
Indonesia suicide bomber mum ‘chatted to neighbors about schools, swapped recipes’
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – The mother of an Indonesian family of six who launched suicide bomb attacks on three churches chatted to neighbors about schooling and swapped recipes, leading what appeared to be a regular middle-class life and eluding …
Malaysian police search houses of Najib, prime minister’s office in 1MDB probe
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police on Thursday searched ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak’s home and other places linked to him in connection with a probe into scandal-plagued state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a senior police offic…
Turkey seeks U.N. General Assembly motion on Jerusalem: foreign minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey wants the United Nations General Assembly to pass a motion regarding Jerusalem, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, as the discomfort over Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israeli forces grows.
