Sold into marriage: how Rohingya girls become child brides in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The slight girl in a turquoise headscarf held back tears as she recalled what happened when she fled to Malaysia from Myanmar’s violence-hit Rakhine state. Just 12-years-old at the time, she was forced to wed a man she did not …
Exclusive: Australia increases pressure, cash offers for PNG asylum seekers to return home
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Officials at an Australian immigration center in Papua New Guinea are increasing pressure on asylum seekers to return to their home countries voluntarily, including offering large sums of money, amid fears a deal for the United State…
Russian jets pound Syrian city of Deraa after rebel gains
AMMAN (Reuters) – Russian jets pounded rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Deraa on Tuesday for a second day in the first such intensive bombing campaign since Moscow’s major intervention in Syria more than a year ago, rebels and witnesses said.
U.N. names new head of peace-keeping operations
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres named a new head of U.N. peacekeeping operations and retained three senior U.N. officials as part of his campaign to reform the world body’s peace and security programs.
North Korea suspected behind murder of leader’s half-brother: U.S. sources
KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL (Reuters) – The U.S. government strongly believes that North Korean agents murdered the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia, U.S. government sources said on Tuesday.
Albanian police catch four suspects in van robbery
TIRANA (Reuters) – Albanian police arrested on Tuesday four people suspected of involvement in the theft of $3.2 million during a cash transport near the main airport last Thursday and have recovered an undisclosed amount of money.
‘Choose life, not death’ reform center tells Iraqi teenage militants
DOHUK, Iraq (Reuters) – Wearing funky beads, Laith Abbas comes across as just another Iraqi teenager trying to look cool, until he describes how he clutched an AK-47 assault rifle at checkpoints along with other Islamic State militants who terrorized M…
Sanctioned for drugs, Venezuelan vice president slams U.S. ‘aggression’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s powerful vice president on Tuesday called his blacklisting by the United States on drug charges an “imperialist aggression” in the first flare-up between the two countries under new U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mexico economy minister says doubts U.S. border tax will materialize
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Tuesday he doubted a proposed border tax on Mexican imports to the United States, which the White House has said could be used to finance President Donald Trump’s border wall, w…
Man and wife injured by ‘terrorist explosion’ in Bahrain
CAIRO (Reuters) – A man and wife were slightly injured on Tuesday by a “terrorist explosion” in Bahrain, the Bahraini interior ministry said.
