Chinese rights activists fearful as policeman takes charge of legal affairs
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese rights lawyers and activists say the promotion on Monday of former police official Fu Zhenghua to head China’s justice ministry signals an even deeper freeze on attempts to use the country’s legal system to defend against ri…
China stays on the sidelines as Venezuela spirals downward
CARACAS/BEIJING (Reuters) – China is likely to extend an agreement providing crisis-stricken Venezuela with favorable loans repayment terms but will not lend fresh funds to President Nicolas Maduro’s government, according to sources in Caracas and Beij…
Peru opposition alleges vote ‘buying’ to keep Kuczynski in power
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s biggest opposition party released audio and video recordings late on Tuesday in which supporters of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski appear to offer lawmakers public work projects in exchange for help defeating an impeachment mot…
China sends carrier through Taiwan Strait after Xi warning: report
TAIPEI (Reuters) – China has sent its sole operational aircraft carrier the Liaoning through the narrow Taiwan Strait that separates China from the self-ruled island, Taiwan’s defense minister said on Wednesday, according to local media.
South Korea’s Moon says three-way summit with North Korea, U.S. possible
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday a three-way summit with North Korea and the United States is possible and that talks should aim for an end to the nuclear threat on the Korean peninsula.
Philippines bus crash kills at least 19, injures more than a dozen: police
MANILA (Reuters) – At least 19 passengers were killed and more than a dozen injured when a commuter bus crashed into a ravine south of the Philippine capital, Manila, on Tuesday evening, police said.
Fate of ‘disappeared’ stirs anger among Pakistan’s Pashtuns
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – When Mohammad Ayub Khan heard his nephew had been picked up by Pakistani security officials in Karachi, it brought back painful memories of another nephew who had gone missing in similar circumstances years before.
France targets sexual harassment with on-the-spot fines
PARIS (Reuters) – France will announce a series of measures against sexual violence on Wednesday, including on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment on the street and extended deadlines for filing rape complaints.
A ‘millennials party’ dares to break Indonesia’s political mould
JAKARTA (Reuters) – In the Jakarta headquarters of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), workers call each other “bro” and “sis”, and their leader sets the sartorial standard with a pair of ripped jeans.
Syrian rebels reach evacuation deal in Eastern Ghouta town: rebel sources
AMMAN (Reuters) – A Russian-brokered deal has been reached to evacuate a Syrian rebel group from a town in Eastern Ghouta to opposition-held northwestern Syria in the first such deal in the last remaining rebel bastion near the capital, two opposition …
