Britain slashes top stake on gambling machines to 2 pounds
(Reuters) – Britain will cut the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals to two pounds from the current 100 pounds($136) in a bid to curb problem gambling.
Benghazi’s displaced: a litmus test for Libya
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – With two brothers in jail, the family house gone and her papers lost in the battle for Benghazi, Fatma is finding it hard to restart her life at the other end of Libya but impossible to imagine going back.
China launches first rocket designed by a private company
BEIJING (Reuters) – China launched its first privately developed rocket from a launchpad in northwestern China on Thursday, state media said, the latest milestone in the country’s ambitious space exploration program.
South Korea to play ‘mediator’ to resolve North Korea-U.S. summit doubts: official
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Thursday it would seek to mediate between the United States and North Korea after Pyongyang threatened to pull out of an unprecedented summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump on June 12 in …
Malaysian police search five places linked to ousted PM Najib
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police conducted searches through the night and into the Thursday morning at five places linked to ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak, including the family home where he stays, a senior police officer said.
Founded to protest Pakistan ‘disappearances’, group now sees supporters go missing
KARACHI (Reuters) – As they were about to enter the office of the Commissioner of Karachi for a meeting to discuss a rally planned in Pakistan’s largest city, leaders of a Pashtun-led rights movement were intercepted by armed men accompanied by paramil…
Nicaraguan students yell ‘Murderer’ at Ortega, demand he resign
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Nicaraguan students taunted President Daniel Ortega with shouts of “murderer” as he spoke at an event aimed at negotiating a solution to weeks of deadly demonstrations that flared up again on Wednesday.
Inmates revolt at Venezuela detention center, Utah man pleads for help
CARACAS (Reuters) – Inmates at a crowded Caracas detention center revolted on Wednesday, with jailed opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a Mormon missionary from Utah begging for freedom and medical attention in postings on social medi…
In Bangladesh, some 60 babies a day born in Rohingya camps: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Around 60 babies a day are being born in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, sheltering hundreds of thousands of mainly Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Wednesday.
Malaysia police seize handbags, other personal items from ex-PM’s home
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police seized handbags and few other personal items from the home of former prime minister Najib Razak in connection with a money laundering probe, a lawyer of the ex-leader said on Thursday.
