Migrants moved on as Beijing deals with building ‘disease’
BEIJING (Reuters) – In a Beijing suburb, a crane hoists a concrete slab into the sky, removing a roof from a simple brick home that had once sheltered a small migrant family.
Suicide bomber kills soldier in central Mogadishu: police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew up himself in front of a mosque in the center of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing a soldier, police said.
Statue of Chinese god stokes tension in Muslim-majority Indonesia
TUBAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia has urged officials to stand up to mob pressure after Muslim and nationalist protesters called for a 30-metre-tall (100-ft-) statue of a Chinese deity erected in a temple complex in an East Java town to be torn do…
Kenya poll monitors back official election result
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s main domestic poll monitoring organization, ELOG, said on Saturday it had found no evidence to suggest this week’s election was manipulated or inaccurate, as the opposition have attested.
Toll low from China quake but villagers fear high cost to tourism
JIUZHAIGOU, China (Reuters) – Businesses near the epicenter of an earthquake that struck an ethnically Tibetan mountainous region in southwest China fear the disaster will cripple tourism, their main source of income.
Former UK spy chief says encryption ‘very positive’ despite attacks
LONDON (Reuters) – A former British spy chief said on Friday that encryption of online communications was “very positive” for the country’s national security interests despite the difficulties that it poses for security services attempting to tackle mi…
Turkey detains 42 suspected militants in raids: sources
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police on Friday detained 42 people over suspected militant links in operations across two separate provinces, security sources and media said.
India in talks with Myanmar, Bangladesh to deport 40,000 Rohingya
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is in talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar about its plan to deport around 40,000 Rohingya Muslims it says are living in the country illegally, a government spokesman said on Friday, with state governments told to form task for…
Hong Kong democracy activist says he was ‘stapled’ by Chinese agents
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A prominent member of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party said on Friday he was beaten and “stapled” by mainland agents in the Chinese-controlled city before being dumped on a beach in what activists said was the latest warning to the de…
Brexit opponent says two senior UK ministers sympathetic to his plans
LONDON (Reuters) – An influential former British government adviser who has called for a new political movement to block Brexit said on Friday that two senior members of Prime Minister Theresa May’s government were sympathetic to his plans.
