South Sudan’s media regulator suspends U.N.-owned radio
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan has suspended the operations of Radio Miraya, which is owned by the U.N. Mission in the country, for failing to comply with media laws, the media regulator said on Friday.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank clashes
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Turkey’s highest court rules journalist Dundar should get stiffer sentence
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s highest court overruled a five-year jail sentence against prominent journalist Can Dundar on Friday, saying he should face up to 20 years in prison on espionage charges, the state-run Anadolu agency said.
Monsoon floods and landslides threaten 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
CHAKMAKUL REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The Rohingya refugees who live in shacks clinging to these steep, denuded hills in southern Bangladesh pray that the sandbags fortifying the slopes will survive the upcoming monsoon.
High-profile activists slam U.S., Canadian sanctions on Venezuela
CARACAS (Reuters) – U.S. philosopher Noam Chomsky and Hollywood star Danny Glover joined other activists on Friday in condemning U.S. and Canadian sanctions on Venezuela’s socialist government, saying they hurt the poor and torpedoed political reconcil…
Trump says prepared to meet North Korea’s Kim in first-ever such parley
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between leaders from the two countries and could mark a breakthrough in a standoff over th…
Polls show Macron hitting speed bump in French reform drive
PARIS (Reuters) – French voters are happy with Emmanuel Macron’s plans to shrink parliament and scrap perks enjoyed by 150,000 railway workers, but less pleased by the president’s effort to make car drivers slow down, polls show.
Bombardment of Syria’s Ghouta endangers aid convoy: U.N.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An emergency aid delivery crossed front lines into the besieged rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta on Friday but ran quickly into danger from shelling, the top U.N. official in Syria said, amid a fierce government offensive.
Britain sends specialist troops to city where Russian double agent poisoned
SALISBURY, England (Reuters) – Britain deployed specialist troops on Friday to remove potentially contaminated objects from the English city where a Russian former double agent and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent.
Japan tax agency head quits amid cronyism scandal
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s National Tax Agency chief, under fire for remarks about a suspected cronyism scandal, quit on Friday, but his resignation was unlikely to end the furor over the affair that threatens to erode Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s popula…
