Fear and loathing in South Korea as university exam postponed by quake
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean test-takers expressed confusion and dejection on Thursday as the country’s highly competitive annual university entrance exam, called a “life assignment exam” by some, was postponed a week for the first time ever due to s…
Senior China minister says some officials practice sorcery
BEIJING (Reuters) – Some top Chinese officials are guilty of practicing sorcery and would rather believe in gurus and Western concepts of democracy than the Communist Party, a senior minister wrote on Thursday, warning of the danger they presented to i…
Zimbabwe on knife’s edge after military seizes power
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe was on a knife’s edge on Thursday after the military seized power in what it dubbed a targeted operation against “criminals” in the entourage of President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the southern African nation for almost f…
Cambodia’s opposition braces for Supreme Court decision
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Thursday began its final session to decide whether to dissolve the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), thus ensuring victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party in next year’s …
Pakistan’s long-persecuted Ahmadi minority fear becoming election scapegoat
RABWAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Crammed into buses and mini-vans, more than 10,000 Pakistanis traveled to a mosque on the outskirts of the small Punjabi town of Rabwah, for the sole purpose of denouncing followers of the minority sect based here as “infid…
Hanson’s ‘battler bus’ takes the anti-immigrant road in Australia
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (Reuters) – It was early morning last Thursday when Pauline Hanson’s rented “battler” bus started hissing so loudly the election campaign was halted at a petrol station on a stretch of desolate highway near a remote edge of Austra…
German Greens want last nuclear weapons withdrawn: document
BERLIN (Reuters) – Greens want the next coalition government to push for the removal of all nuclear warheads stationed in Germany, a document seen by Reuters showed on Wednesday.
U.N. to vote on rival U.S., Russia bids to renew Syria inquiry
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on rival U.S. and Russian bids to renew an international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria, diplomats said, a move that could trigger Russia’s 10th v…
Britain’s May weathers new challenges on Brexit plan, more to come
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May withstood new attempts to force concessions on her blueprint for leaving the European Union on Wednesday, the second day of a parliamentary debate that is deepening divisions over Brexit.
3,000 form chain of light against far right in Austrian government
VIENNA (Reuters) – At least 3,000 people formed a chain of light in Vienna on Wednesday to protest against the formation of a government that includes the far-right Freedom Party.
