Paris attacks suspect gets 20-year sentence in Brussels trial
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian judge on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016.
Singapore PM’s job: Once decided over cake and coffee, now mulled over for months
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singaporeans are not used to uncertainty when it comes to their future political leaders.
Saudi-led air strikes kill at least 20 at Yemen wedding
DUBAI (Reuters) – Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 20 people attending a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen late on Sunday, residents and medical sources said.
Kate, wife of UK’s Prince William, taken to hospital to give birth to third child
LONDON (Reuters) – Kate, the wife of Prince William, was admitted to hospital on Monday to give birth to the couple’s third child and the latest member of Britain’s royal family.
China says 32 nationals dead in major North Korean bus crash
BEIJING (Reuters) – Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died in a major bus accident in North Korea, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, with two Chinese nationals seriously injured and left in critical condition.
Cambodia king urges Senate dominated by ruling party to protect rights
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday urged senators to protect justice and human rights as the upper house of the country’s parliament met for the first time since the ruling party swept a controversial election in February…
Qatar denies its military planes intercepted UAE civilian aircraft
DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar denied on Monday that its military planes had intercepted a civilian aircraft from the United Arab Emirates the day before, states news agency QNA reported, saying a UAE military plane had violated its air space at the time.
Islamic State beheads three brothers in Afghanistan: official
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Militants from Islamic State have beheaded three brothers, all working in the medical profession, in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, an official said on Monday.
South Korea switches off propaganda broadcasts, Moon upbeat on North Korea nuclear halt
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Monday halted the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border with North Korea, aiming to set a positive tone ahead of the first summit in a decade between their leaders as the U.S. president cautioned the nuclear…
‘Everyone’s against me’: rivals attack Mexico leftist in TV debate
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The trailing pack of candidates in Mexico’s July 1 presidential election on Sunday launched repeated attacks on the leftist front-runner in a first televised debate, putting him on the defensive without luring him out into an op…
