Attack on Yemeni port would displace at least 400,000: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – An attack on Yemen’s Hodeidah port would displace more than 400,000 people, the U.N. International Organization for Migration said on Friday, doubling its previous minimum estimate.
China conducting extensive espionage against Australia: defense official
SYDNEY (Reuters) – China is conducting extensive espionage against Australia, Australia’s most senior defense department official said on Friday, in a rare public accusation against its largest trading partner.
South Korea to attend China’s Silk Road summit amid diplomatic rift
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has accepted a last-minute invitation from China to a conference on a new Silk Road, days after a new president took office on Seoul pledging to engage in discussions with Beijing to ease tension over a U.S. anti-missile s…
Italian police see no specific target of petrol bomb in Rome
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police were investigating the causes of explosions in central Rome on Friday which are not thought to have had a specific target, a senior official said. Nobody was injured in the blasts.
Erdogan sees ‘new beginning’ in Turkish-U.S. ties despite Kurdish arms move
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday his visit to the United States next week could mark a “new beginning” in relations between the NATO allies that were shaken by a U.S. decision to arm Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria.
North Korea seeks extradition of South Korea spy chief over ‘assassination plot’
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea demanded on Friday the extradition of South Korea’s spy chief, accusing him of being a mastermind of a plot to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong Un, with a biochemical weapon.
Germany says will tell U.S. at G7 that the world needs its leadership
BARI, Italy (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday he would tell the U.S. Treasury Secretary that the world needs the United States’ leadership.
Smoke alarm: Indonesians take tiny steps against Big Tobacco
JAKARTA (Reuters) – A neighborhood in the Indonesian capital has informally declared itself a smoke-free zone as students plan further protests against what they see as an increased effort by cigarette companies to target the young.
France’s Macron woos conservative moderates as row simmers with ally
PARIS (Reuters) – Centrist French President elect Emmanuel Macron sought to woo conservative members of parliament to his cause on Friday and head off a row with an ally as he bids for victory in elections for parliament next month.
In Senegal, Iran and Saudi Arabia vie for religious influence
DAKAR (Reuters) – In an upmarket suburb of Senegal’s seaside capital, a branch of Iran’s Al-Mustafa University teaches Senegalese students Shi’ite Muslim theology, among other subjects. The branch director is Iranian and a portrait of Iranian Supreme L…
