Mexican tribunal creates committee to investigate students’ disappearance
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican tribunal ordered on Monday the creation of an independent commission to investigate the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico nearly four years ago, citing shortcomings in the federal prosecutor’s investigati…
Australia criticises China pressure for Qantas to change website on Taiwan
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday criticised China for pressuring Qantas Airways Ltd to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, in comments likely to ramp up tensions between the two countries….
Peru’s finance minister quits as Vizcarra targets taxes owed by big firms
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra announced late on Monday that he had accepted his finance minister’s resignation as part of a policy shift that will focus on collecting taxes owed from large companies.
With khukris and assault rifles, Singapore’s Gurkhas to guard Trump-Kim summit
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – When U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet for their historic summit in Singapore later this month, they will be protected by men from one of the fiercest warrior tribes in the world – the Gurkhas of…
Guatemalan families continue search for victims after volcano eruption
EL RODEO, GUATEMALA (Reuters) – The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Guatemala rose to 69 on Monday as family members desperately searched for the missing in makeshift morgues and on streets blanketed with ash.
Malaysia’s monarch agrees to government’s choice of non-Muslim attorney-general
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s royal rulers have agreed to the government’s plan to appoint a non-Muslim attorney-general, the palace said, after a near two-week impasse that stoked racial tensions in the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country.
Australia says China unduly pressured Qantas into website change on Taiwan
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday criticized China for pressuring national flag carrier Qantas Airways Ltd to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, ramping up tensions between the two countri…
Heir to Bhutto dynasty seeking revival in Pakistan’s election
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s only major left-leaning political party is fighting for its electoral relevance and to preserve the legacy of the country’s best-known political dynasty weeks before the country heads to the polls.
Aid groups want Macron’s assurances on Yemen meet co-chaired by Saudis
PARIS (Reuters) – Almost 30 aid groups wrote to French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening threatening to shun a conference on Yemen co-chaired by Saudi Arabia, one of the warring parties, unless France as host ensured its aims were purely huma…
Young monks lead revival of Buddhism in Mongolia after years of repression
BARUUNBUREN, Mongolia (Reuters) – Buddhism is one of the world’s oldest religions, but its fate in Mongolia now rests on very young shoulders.
