North Korea requests talks on Olympics with South on Jan. 17: South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has requested that working talks on sending its athletes to next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics be held on Wednesday at the truce village of Panmunjom, the South’s unification ministry said in a mobile text message.
Indonesia’s Golkar Party appoints new parliamentary speaker amid graft probe
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Golkar Party has appointed Bambang Soesatyo as parliamentary speaker, after the previous speaker was indicted in a $170 million corruption scandal late last year, the party’s secretary general Muhammad Sarmuji said on Mo…
China sees 1,300 fugitives returned from overseas in 2017: China Daily
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A total of 1,300 fugitives were returned to China from overseas last year, including 347 corrupt officials, the China Daily reported on Monday, citing figures from the country’s corruption watchdog.
Colombia’s ELN rebels must halt attacks, restart talks: U.N.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s ELN rebel group must cease attacks and re-start peace talks with the government to end more than a half-century of war, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday, amid renewed violence after the end …
Nine bodies found in truck in Mexican state of Veracruz
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Nine dismembered bodies were found piled in a truck on Saturday night in the violent Mexican state of Veracruz, the governor said on Sunday, describing the crime as a clash of rival gangs.
Plane skids off Turkish runway and plunges towards sea
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Pegasus Airlines flight skidded off the runway of a Turkish coastal airport and plunged down a steep slope on the edge of the Black Sea, ending up only meters from the water’s edge.
Violent protests resume in Tunisia after two days of calm
TUNIS (Reuters) – Violent protests erupted again on Sunday in two areas of the capital Tunis and another town after a relatively calm two days, the latest protests in the country against austerity measures.
Exclusive: France expects UK to pay up, take more refugees to keep border – official
PARIS (Reuters) – France expects Britain to agree to take more asylum seekers and pay more for border security in order to maintain a frontier on the French side of the Channel, a French government official said.
Peru ex-President Fujimori hospitalized with heart problems: media
LIMA (Reuters) – Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s former authoritarian president who was freed from a 25-year prison sentence with a humanitarian pardon last Christmas Eve, was hospitalized with heart problems on Sunday, his doctor told local newspaper El Come…
Peace efforts can only resume under international mediation: Abbas
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would only accept a broad, internationally-backed panel to broker any peace talks with Israel, but did not rule out a U.S. role in such a panel.
