Turkey hopes gold trader Zarrab will ‘turn back from mistake’, PM says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday he hoped a gold trader cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in the trial of a Turkish banker will “turn back from his mistake”, saying the Iran sanctions-related case targeted Turk…
Exclusive: Former top Brazil prosecutor says successor, police chief slowing graft probes
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Three senior Brazilian law enforcement officials, including the former prosecutor general, said new leaders of the federal police and prosecutors’ offices are curbing an anti-corruption drive that challenged centuries of impunity i…
Skin in the game: Philippine students protest Duterte in naked run
MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippine college fraternity used its annual naked run on Friday to protest against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs and the imposition of martial law in the south in the army’s fight against Islamist militants.
Rohingya who says she was raped in Myanmar hopes pope can help find justice
DHAKA (Reuters) – A 27-year-old Rohingya Muslim woman refugee from Myanmar will meet Pope Francis on Friday in the hope he can help her find justice for the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of Myanmar soldiers, including rape.
U.N. Yugoslav tribunal orders independent review of Praljak death
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The U.N. Yugoslav tribunal on Friday said it has launched its own independent review into the death of former Bosnian Croat military leader Slobodan Praljak.
Merkel, SPD leader agreed to start talks to solve political impasse: party source
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer and SPD leader Martin Schulz agreed during a meeting late on Thursday to enter talks to find a way out of the political impasse, a party official said on Friday.
Russian parliament to discuss ban on access for U.S. media: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian lawmakers are to discuss a proposal to bar representatives of U.S. media organizations from accessing the lower house of parliament, RIA news agency quoted the chair of one of the chamber’s committees as saying.
‘You’re right: We’re a threat,’ British Labour leader Corbyn warns Morgan Stanley
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned Morgan Stanley that bankers are right to regard him as a threat because he wants to transform what he cast as a rigged economy that profited speculators at the expense of ordin…
Long road ahead to a new life for wounded North Korean defector
SEOUL (Reuters) – The North Korean soldier critically wounded when making a dash to the south last month may have cheated death, but even as his health improves, he is months if not years away from finding a normal life in South Korea, officials and other defectors say.
Japan court sentences U.S. base worker to life for rape, murder: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese court sentenced a former U.S. military base worker to life in prison on Friday for the rape and murder of a woman on the southern island of Okinawa, public broadcaster NHK reported.
