Saudi Ritz reopens after stint as gilded prison of princes
RIYADH (Reuters) – Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel reopened on Sunday, more than three months after it was converted into a gilded prison for members of Saudi Arabia’s business and political elite detained in an anti-corruption purge.
One in four Iraqi children in poverty after war on Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – One in four Iraqi children are in poverty and four million are in need of assistance as a result of the country’s war with Islamic State militants, the United Nation’s children agency said on Sunday.
Nine killed as gunbattle rages in army camp in Indian-administered Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Nine people were killed in a gun battle between Indian soldiers and militants that raged into its second day at an Indian army camp in northern Jammu and Kashmir state, a police official said on Sunday.
South Africa’s ANC to hold meeting on Monday as pressure mounts on Zuma
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will convene a special meeting of its decision-making executive on Monday, its spokesman said, amid mounting pressure on President Jacob Zuma to step down.
Myanmar says soldiers, police facing action over village killings
(Reuters) – Action will be taken against 10 members of Myanmar’s security forces in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a government spokesman said on Sunday, adding it was not related to a Reuters report on the i…
Sri Lanka ex-leader-backed party set for landslide victory in local polls
COLOMBO (Reuters) – A political party backed by Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa looks set for a landslide victory in local polls, early results showed on Sunday, potentially undermining the country’s unity government and its reform agend…
Friend or foe? Assad quietly aids Syrian Kurds against Turkey
ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad.
May to set out ‘Road to Brexit’ in speech: BBC
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will make a speech on Brexit in the next three weeks, one of several planned addresses by senior ministers designed to set out the country’s path to leaving the European Union, British media reported on Sun…
Egyptian army says 16 militants killed in Sinai operation
CAIRO (Reuters) – Sixteen militants were killed and four arrested in a major security operation launched by Egypt on Friday, the Egyptian military said on Sunday, the first casualties in a campaign aimed at crushing insurgents behind a string of attack…
Knife-wielding attacker wounds four church-goers in Indonesia: police
JAKARTA (Reuters) – A knife-wielding attacker wounded four church-goers in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta on Sunday, officials said, before being shot by police who could not yet confirm if it was a terror-related incident.
