German state premier on defensive over close ties with VW
BERLIN (Reuters) – The government of Germany’s Lower Saxony on Sunday denied a newspaper report that its premier softened speeches critical of Volkswagen in the diesel emissions scandal at the company’s request.
Emirates crash investigators focusing on pilot actions: report
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates investigation into the 2016 Emirates crash in Dubai is focusing on pilot actions and has identified ways that air traffic control and flight crews can communicate better, an interim report said on Sunday.
Suu Kyi’s man in Yangon under fire over transit deal with China
YANGON (Reuters) – Aung San Suu Kyi’s first major infrastructure project could hardly be more visible – hundreds of new yellow buses now plying the streets of Yangon in what her ruling party hopes will be a potent symbol of how it is transforming peopl…
U.N. condemns brutality of Yemen conflict after airstrikes on civilians
DUBAI (Reuters) – A top United Nations official in Yemen said reported airstrikes in which at least 12 civilians were killed, including children, were an example of the “disregard” for civilians’ safety shown by all the combatants in Yemen’s civil war….
In Afghan review, Trump’s frustration carries echoes of Obama years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has shown an affinity, and perhaps even a deference, to the generals he has surrounded himself with in his Cabinet and at the White House, save one exception: the war in Afghanista…
Israel offers to take Iranian blogger from Turkey
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel offered asylum on Sunday to a Turkey-based Iranian blogger who it said faced forcible deportation to Iran, where she would be at risk given her work for an Israeli news site.
At least two dead as weakening Typhoon Noru nears main Japanese islands
TOKYO (Reuters) – A slow-moving but weakening Typhoon Noru, at one point the strongest storm in the world this year, approached the main islands of Japan on Sunday, leaving two people dead and prompting evacuation advisories to be issued for hundreds o…
Russia’s Lavrov meets Tillerson, says feels U.S. ready to continue dialogue
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he believed his U.S. colleagues were ready to continue dialogue with Moscow on complex issues despite bilateral tensions.
Police charge Australian man over weapons after ‘IS-inspired’ plane plot raids
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian man who was detained during raids to disrupt what authorities described as an Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb an Etihad Airways flight has been charged with weapons offences and released on bail, police said on S…
China says dialogue vital to tackle Korean peninsula crisis
MANILA (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister said on Sunday new U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea were the right response to a series of missile tests, but dialogue was vital to resolve a complex and sensitive issue, now at a “critical junc…
