Trump: military solutions ‘locked and loaded’ against North Korea threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump issued another warning to North Korea on Friday with a reference to American weapons as being “locked and loaded.”
Myanmar sends hundreds of troops to Rakhine as tension rises: sources
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar has sent hundreds of soldiers to beef up security in northwestern Rakhine state after a recent spate of killings, military sources said on Friday, fuelling fears of yet more violence and instability in the troubled region.
Heavy fighting erupts between South Sudanese government forces and rebels in Pagak: spokesmen
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Heavy fighting erupted in the South Sudanese town of Pagak, near the Ethiopian border, when rebels launched an offensive against government forces, the rebels said.
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.
