Australia gay marriage rally draws record crowd ahead of postal vote
SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than 20,000 people rallied in Sydney on Sunday urging the legalization of same-sex marriage, days ahead of a contentious postal survey on the issue that has divided the country.
Iranian warship turns away U.S. battleship as Gulf tension flares: Tasnim
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A rocket-bearing Iranian military vessel confronted an American battleship in the Gulf and warned it to stay away from a damaged Iranian fishing boat, the Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
Wife of detained Taiwan activist to attend his trial in China
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The wife and mother of detained Taiwanese rights activist Lee Ming-che were due to arrive in China on Sunday to attend his subversion trial on Monday, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement, calling for Lee’s safe retu…
Hurricane Irma nearing Florida with catastrophic winds, deadly storm surges
FORT MYERS, Fla (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma was set to make landfall in Florida on Sunday with devastating winds and life-threatening storm surges, prompting one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history, after a destructive march up Cuba’s northern c…
Mexican quake death toll rises to 90 as Oaxaca reports more fatalities
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The death toll from the massive earthquake that struck Mexico on Thursday night has risen to at least 90 after emergency services in the southern state of Oaxaca said late on Saturday there had been 71 confirmed fatalities in th…
With Trump meeting, Malaysia’s PM seeks to put 1MDB scandal behind him
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – In a room packed with Malaysian civil servants, foreign ministry secretary general Ramlan Ibrahim raised his right hand as he read out an anti-corruption pledge.
Winds whip Florida Keys as Hurricane Irma turns sights northward
FORT MYERS, Fla. (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma turned its fury toward the Florida Keys on Saturday after setting off one of the largest evacuations of Americans from a storm and completing a destructive march along Cuba’s northern coast.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un fetes nuclear scientists, holds celebration bash
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientists and technicians who steered the country’s sixth and largest nuclear test a week ago, its official news agency said on Sunday.
Pope, in Medellin, recalls ‘painful memory’ of narco wars
MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday visited Medellin, epicenter of Colombia’s narco wars of the 1980s and asked that God convert the hearts of the “drug assassins” who cut short so many young lives.
Funerals crowd cemetery of dead from massive Mexico quake
JUCHITAN, Mexico (Reuters) – Anguished mourners lined the streets of the southern Mexican city devastated by the most powerful earthquake to strike the country in 85 years, coffins raised on their shoulders as they advanced slowly to a crowded cemetery…
