Mahathir, 92, sworn in as Malaysia’s seventh prime minister
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia’s seventh prime minister on Thursday following his stunning election victory over the coalition that has ruled the Southeast Asian nation for six decades since independence from Britain…
EU must give up ‘nightmares’ of United States of Europe: Hungarian PM
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The European Union should give up the “delusional nightmares” of a United States of Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday in pledging to defend his nation’s Christian values and fight EU migrant settlement …
Church and religion take back seat as a secular Ireland votes on abortion
NENAGH/CORK, Ireland (Reuters) – Three decades after Ireland introduced one of the world’s only constitutional bans on abortion, the Church that was so pivotal in securing the law’s passage finds itself a minor player in the now mainly secular battle t…
Hungarian parliament elects Viktor Orban prime minister
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s new parliament reelected Viktor Orban as prime minister for a third straight term on Thursday after a landslide election victory last month gave his Fidesz party a two-thirds majority in the legislature.
Mahathir to be sworn in as Malaysia’s seventh Prime Minister
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Mahathir Mohamad will be sworn in as Malaysia’s seventh prime minister on Thursday, palace officials said, following his shock election victory over the coalition that has ruled the Southeast Asian nation for six decades since …
Turkey’s Erdogan tells Iran’s Rouhani that U.S. decision on nuclear deal wrong: Turkish source
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani that he found the U.S. decision to withdraw from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran to be wrong, a source in Erdogan’s office said.
Exclusive: Iraq used Baghdadi aide’s phone to capture Islamic State commanders
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi agents are holding a top aide to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and used an app on his mobile phone to lure four commanders from the group into a trap, a security advisor to the Iraqi government said on Thursday.
Vietnam arrests oil refinery executives amid corruption crackdown
HANOI (Reuters) – Police in Vietnam arrested the chairman and the chief accountant of Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd. on suspicion of embezzlement on Thursday as the communist-led government widens a crackdown on corruption.
Kenyan rose-farm dam bursts, ‘sea of water’ kills 32
SOLAI, Kenya (Reuters) – A dam burst on a commercial flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a “sea of water” that careened down a hillside and smashed into two villages, killing at least 32 people.
Explosion in Somalia town near Mogadishu kills seven soldiers: official
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An bomb targeting soldiers in southern Somalia killed seven on Thursday, a government official said, the second such incident in two days.
