As Congo refugees pour over border, Angola’s backing for Kabila in doubt
DUNDO, Angola (Reuters) – Captured by militia and accused of being married to a Congolese government official, Kimpanga Caro could smell the fire she was told would be used to burn her decapitated head to ash.
Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption row
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S….
Tokyo Governor Koike’s allies seek to repeat local success in Japan national poll
TOKYO (Reuters) – With no platform, no party leader and not even a formal name, a nascent political party linked to popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is preparing for a snap election that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to call for nex…
Myanmar protesters try to block aid shipment to Muslim Rohingya
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Buddhist protesters in Myanmar threw petrol bombs to try to block an aid shipment to Muslims in Rakhine State, where the United Nations has accused the country’s military of ethnic cleansing
South Korea approves aid to North Korea, North calls Trump ‘barking dog’
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea approved a plan on Thursday to send $8 million worth of aid to North Korea, as China warned the crisis on the Korean peninsula was getting more serious by the day and the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington conti…
Iraq launches offensive on Hawija, an Islamic State-held region near oil city Kirkuk
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to dislodge Islamic State from Hawija, an area located west of the oil city of Kirkuk.
China top graft buster says corruption fight ‘world class hard’
BEIJING (Reuters) – Fixing the corruption problem in China’s ruling Communist Party is “world class hard” and the battle will never end, the country’s top graft-buster told Singapore’s prime minister in a rare meeting with a visiting foreign leader.
North Korea’s foreign minister calls Trump’s U.N. address ‘sound of dog barking’
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho called U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations “the sound of a dog barking”, brushing aside Trump’s remarks that the United States may be forced to “totally destroy” North K…
Myanmar says security forces told to avoid collateral damage in Rakhine
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Myanmar’s vice president told the United Nations on Wednesday that security forces in his country’s Rakhine State, from which hundreds of thousands of people have recently fled, have been instructed to take “full measures” to…
U.S. weighs whether to stay in Iran nuclear deal
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday it is weighing whether the Iranian nuclear deal serves its security interests even as Iran said it did not expect Washington to abandon the agreement.
