Australian court convicts archbishop for concealing child sex abuse
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian archbishop was found guilty on Tuesday of concealing child sex abuse by a priest, which Australian media said made him the most senior Catholic in the world to be convicted on such a charge.
Cuba plane crash death toll rises to 111, Mexico suspends lease company
HAVANA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The death toll in one of Cuba’s worst air disasters rose to 111 on Monday while Mexico suspended the operations of the Mexican company that had leased the 39-year old Boeing 737 to Cuba’s flagship airline.
Malaysia’s embattled Najib questioned by anti-corruption agency
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Embattled former Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived at the headquarters of Malaysia’s anti-corruption commission on Tuesday, which has ordered him to explain a suspicious transfer of $10.6 million into his bank account.
Thai protesters prepare to march in Bangkok, police set up barriers
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Anti-government protesters gathered in Bangkok on Tuesday to prepare to march from a university in the Thai capital to Government House to demand that the military government hold a general election by November.
Five killed, 20 wounded by Houthi missile in Yemen’s city of Marib
RIYADH (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and 20 wounded by a Houthi missile fired at the Yemeni city of Marib, security and medical sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
Cuba plane crash death toll rises to 111 as one survivor dies
HAVANA (Reuters) – The death toll from a plane crash in Cuba last week rose to 111 on Monday as one of the three survivors, 23-year-old Grettel Landrove, died in a Havana hospital, Cuban state-run media said.
Re-elected, Venezuela’s Maduro faces global criticism, U.S. sanctions
CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Critics at home and abroad on Monday denounced the re-election of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro as a farce cementing autocracy, while the U.S. government imposed new sanctions on the crisis-stricken oil-p…
Mongolia’s reindeer herders fear lost identity under hunting ban
TSAGAANNUUR, Mongolia (Reuters) – Erdenebat Chuluu, a nomadic herder, shouts words of encouragement to the reindeer he is riding.
Russia shoots down ‘unidentified drone’ near air base in Syria: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s military said on Monday it had shot down an unidentified drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim, RIA news agency said, citing the Russian Defence Ministry.
Watchdog finds little progress in Afghanistan, despite U.S. military optimism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s South Asia strategy has shown few signs of progress this quarter, a U.S. government watchdog report said on Monday, despite public assertions by the U.S. military that Taliban militants were on the back f…
