If elected, South Korea’s Moon may put economy ahead of jobs and tax hikes
SEOUL (Reuters) – The man tipped to be elected South Korea’s new president has said he wants to hire more firefighters, teachers and policemen, but his main objective will be to protect a fragile recovery in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
China begins trial of rights lawyer for ‘subversion of state power’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China began the trial of rights lawyer Xie Yang for “subversion of state power” and “disrupting court order” on Monday, a city court said on social media, a case that has drawn international concern amid claims Xie was tortured in j…
France’s victorious Macron reminded of huge, immediate challenges
PARIS (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron was confronted on Monday with pressing reminders of the challenges facing him as France’s next president, even as allies and some former rivals signaled their willingness to work closely with him.
Mexico army fights surge in violence for control of poppy country
COYUCA DE CATALAN, Mexico (Reuters) – The Mexican army says its fight against surging opium production that feeds U.S demand is increasingly complicated by the rise of smaller gangs disputing wild, ungoverned lands planted with ever-stronger poppy strains.
Made in North Korea: As tougher sanctions loom, more local goods in stores
PYONGYANG/SEOUL (Reuters) – From carrot-flavored toothpaste and charcoal facemasks to motorcycles and solar panels, visitors to North Korea say they are seeing more and more locally made products in the isolated country’s shops and supermarkets, replac…
As Philippines joins China to fight illegal gambling, more scrutiny of casinos likely
MANILA/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China and the Philippines have joined forces to tackle illegal gambling, part of Beijing’s broader campaign to curb illicit capital outflows and a pledge by Manila to weed out unscrupulous operators from the country’s boomi…
War forces two million South Sudanese children to flee homes
KIGALI (Reuters) – War and famine have forced more than 2 million children in South Sudan to flee their homes, creating the most worrying refugee crisis in the world, the United Nations said on Monday.
Venezuela’s jailed Lopez is well, urges more protests: wife
CARACAS (Reuters) – Jailed opposition Venezuelan politician Leopoldo Lopez is well and is urging street demonstrators to keep up massive anti-government protests, his wife said on Sunday after her first visit with the former presidential hopeful in ove…
City of Montreal declares state of emergency from flooding
(Reuters) – The city of Montreal declared a state of emergency on Sunday afternoon as floodwaters spread from torrential rains that have lashed the city since early on Friday, causing the worst flooding in decades, city officials said.
Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday symbolically tossed into a bin a Hamas policy paper published last week that set out an apparent softening of the Palestinian Islamist group’s stance toward Israel.
