Malaysia arrests 20 over suspected terror links
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has arrested 20 suspected militants, including 13 foreigners, police said on Friday, adding to a list of hundreds detained in recent years accused of having links to terror groups.
Palestinian killed in anti-U.S. protests after U.N. vote on Jerusalem: health official
GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians launched more anti-U.S. protests on Friday, and at least one demonstrator was killed in the Gaza Strip, a health official said, after the U.N. General Assembly rejected Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s cap…
UHNCR says Australia abandoned refugees, must clear up the mess it made
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N refugee agency on Friday accused Australia of abandoning hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and said it must take responsibility for the mess it created with its “offshore processing” s…
U.N. hails first step on Syria detainees, cautious on Sochi plan
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Syria talks in the Kazakh capital Astana on Friday had agreed on a “working group” for the release of detainees, which he said was a commendable first step towards an arrangement between the w…
Putin accuses U.S. of plotting to break landmark arms control pact
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the United States of plotting to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, which bans short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear and conventional missiles.
Stop meddling in foreign elections, UK’s Johnson tells Russian hosts
MOSCOW (Reuters) – British foreign minister Boris Johnson told his Russian counterpart on Friday there was “abundant evidence” of Moscow meddling in foreign elections, but said any Russian efforts to interfere in last year’s Brexit referendum had falle…
Russia, Turkey hope Astana peace talks will lead to congress on Syria in Sochi
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday they hoped the current round of Syria peace talks in Astana would lay the groundwork for a Syrian national dialogue congress in Sochi, the Kre…
Catalan separatists win vote, thwarting Rajoy’s bid to solve crisis
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – Separatists looked set on Friday to regain power in Catalonia after voters rejected Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s attempt to defuse the independence movement, instead re-igniting the country’s biggest political cri…
Iran denies British-Iranian aid worker might be released soon
LONDON (Reuters) – Iran’s justice ministry confirmed on Friday that authorities have opened a new case against British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been sentenced to five years in jail, and denied she might soon be released.
UK’s Johnson, on Moscow visit, tells Moscow to stop meddling in Europe
MOSCOW (Reuters) – British foreign minister Boris Johnson told his Russian counterpart on Friday he wanted to talk about difficult subjects such as Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and what he described as Russia’s destabilizing of the western B…
