Spain’s Supreme Court refuses bail for former Catalonia cabinet members
MADRID (Reuters) – Former Catalonian vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former cabinet member Joaquim Forn and two leaders of civic groups ANC and Omnium Cultural, faced with charges of sedition, have been refused bail, Spain’s Supreme Court said on Monda…
Malta police arrest eight suspects in murder of blogger: PM
ROME (Reuters) – Maltese police on Monday arrested eight suspects in the murder of blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said, almost two months after her car was blown up while she was driving it.
Russia to start registering some foreign media as ‘foreign agents’ this week: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s justice ministry will start registering some foreign media as “foreign agents” this week, the RIA news agency cited a source in the Russian upper house of parliament as saying on Monday.
South Korea, U.S. launch air drills amid North Korean warnings of nuclear war
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and South Korea went ahead with large-scale joint aerial drills on Monday, a move North Korea had said would push the Korean peninsula to “the brink of nuclear war”, ignoring calls from Russia and China to ca…
Risks grow for Rohingya in Bangladesh’s teeming, squalid camps
(Reuters) – Bangladesh plans to allocate more land for camps housing Rohingya refugees as concerns grow over a possible outbreak of disease in crowded, makeshift settlements clustered at the country’s southern tip.
U.S. defense chief arrives in Pakistan but few signs of progress for Trump strategy
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Islamabad on Monday to ask Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership to do more to rein in militants accused of using the country as a base to carry out attacks in neighboring Afghani…
Honduran vote count tilts toward incumbent despite protests over suspected fraud
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Electoral authorities in Honduras seemed poised to hand the president a second term on Monday even after tens of thousands took to the streets in the biggest protests yet over suspected vote count fraud since last week’s dispute…
France should know that Iran’s missiles are not negotiable: spokesman
BEIRUT (Reuters) – France should know that Iran’s missile program is not an issue that can be negotiated, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, said in an interview with state media on Monday.
China says resurfacing tensions on Korean peninsula regrettable
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that after two months of relative calm on the Korean peninsula, the resurfacing of tensions was regrettable.
Honduran candidate leads mass protest, appeals for army support
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Hondurans marched on Sunday in the biggest protests since last week’s disputed presidential election, with resistance intensifying over an erratic vote count that looks set to show the president winning a se…
