Over $500 million in Thai bank shares transferred on behalf of king: SEC
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Shares worth over $500 million in Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank have been transferred on behalf of King Maha Vajiralongkorn from the Crown Property Bureau, which manages palace assets, a filing with Thailand’s Securities and Excha…
Anti-nuclear campaign group wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO/GENEVA (Reuters) – A campaign group seeking a global ban on nuclear arms won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, given the award by a Nobel Committee that cited the spread of weapons to North Korea and said the risk was growing of nuclear war.
Overcrowded Greek refugee camps ill-prepared for winter: UNHCR
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece must speed up winter preparations at refugee camps on islands in the Aegean Sea where there has been a sharp rise in arrivals, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
Kremlin says Russian-Saudi military cooperation not aimed at anyone
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had discussed military cooperation in talks on Thursday and said other countries should not worry about such ties.
U.N. worries about more refugees as Myanmar reports ‘large numbers’ aim to go
GENEVA/YANGON (Reuters) – Muslim Rohingya are still fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh and the United Nations is bracing for a possible “further exodus”, the U.N. humanitarian aid chief said on Friday.
Austria’s conservatives, Social Democrats to sue each other ahead of vote
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s co-governing Social Democrats (SPO) and conservative (OVP), who are leading in polls ahead of the Oct. 15 election, said on Friday they would sue each other in an escalating political smear scandal.
British PM May faces plot to topple her, former party chairman says
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May should quit to save the Conservative Party from losing the next election and 30 of her lawmakers back a plot to topple her, a former chairman of her party said on Friday.
Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO/GENEVA (Reuters) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee, warning of a rising risk of nuclear war, awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to a little-known international campaign group advocating for a ban on nuclear weapons.
Debris and dust: Raqqa ‘sacrificed’ to defeat Islamic State
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of the narrow roads, block after block.
Catalan parliament to defy Spanish ban on independence debate, official says
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s parliament will defy a Spanish court ban and go ahead on Monday with a debate that could lead to a declaration of independence, a regional government official said, as Spain’s worst political crisis in decades l…
