Plastics mines? Europe struggles as pollution piles up
OSLO (Reuters) – Europe has sent just over half the plastic waste it used to ship to China to other parts of Asia since Beijing’s environmental crackdown closed the world’s biggest recycling market in January. The knotty problem is what to do with the …
Monsoon threat looms for Rohingya camps
(Reuters) – Aid agencies face a “narrowing window” to prepare Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh for life-threatening floods in the approaching monsoon season, the aid coordinating group said this week.
Exclusive: Malaysia’s Mahathir to appoint adviser to recover 1MDB funds – sources
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad plans to appoint a finance ministry adviser who will oversee efforts to recover billions of dollars allegedly stolen from state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), two sources told Reuters.
Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush stands for parliament
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a news conference a decade ago is standing for parliament, campaigning against corruption and the sectarianism that has plagued his country.
Kremlin says changing law to allow Putin another term in office not on agenda
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that a suggestion by regional lawmakers to change the constitution to allow President Vladimir Putin to serve another presidential term when his current term ends in 2024 was not on Putin’s agenda.
South Korea says trying to verify complaints by North Korea waitress ‘defectors’
SEOUL (Reuters) – Several North Korean waitresses who arrived in South Korea in 2016 in a group of 13 defectors have said they were coerced into leaving, and a South Korean ministry that handles ties with the North said on Friday it was trying to verif…
Taliban kill dozens of police in western Afghan province
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters attacked Afghan bases in the western province of Farah, killing more than 30 police, officials said on Friday, as the insurgents stepped up their offensive in a region with vital opium smuggling routes in…
UAE extends military reach in Yemen and Somalia
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Military transport planes from the United Arab Emirates landed on the sleepy Yemeni island of Socotra last week, unloading tanks and troops as part of the Gulf Arab state’s drive to extend its influence over a strategic waterway f…
Gaza protester wounded in border demonstration
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian protester in Gaza, Palestinian medical workers said, as demonstrators arrived for the last Friday of a six-week protest at the Gaza-Israel border.
UK, French, German foreign ministers to meet over Iran on Tuesday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will host a meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the Iran nuclear deal after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull o…
