Trump to choose businessman Hagerty as next U.S. envoy to Japan: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to pick businessman William Hagerty as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, an adviser to Trump’s transition team told Reuters on Wednesday.
Australia, Indonesia seek to patch up wounds over military row
SYDNEY/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia and Australia sought to calm tensions on Thursday after Indonesia’s military suspended ties because of “insulting” teaching material found at an Australian base that questioned Jakarta’s sovereignty in Papua provinc…
Turkey’s Dogan Holding says two detained in police raids in Gulen-linked probe
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police detained the chief legal advisor and a former chief executive of Dogan Holding, one of the country’s biggest conglomerates, on Thursday in a probe into the network of a U.S.-based cleric blamed for a failed coup, sen…
French ex-PM Valls shown clear winner in left-wing presidential primaries: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Manuel Valls, who quit as Socialist prime minister a month ago to prepare a campaign for this year’s presidential election, remains the clear favorite to win the left-wing primaries later in January, an opinion poll published on Thurs…
Myanmar accused of ‘whitewash’ as panel rejects claims it is persecuting Rohingya
YANGON (Reuters) – Human rights groups said Myanmar’s government is trying to cover up abuses against civilians in a Muslim-majority part of Rakhine State after an investigation panel dismissed claims a government crackdown there amounts to “genocide”….
Mexico gas price hike spurs looting, blockades as unrest spreads
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans angry over a double-digit hike in gasoline prices looted stores and blockaded roads on Wednesday, prompting over 250 arrests amid escalating unrest over the rising cost of living in Latin America’s second biggest econom…
Turkish military says 38 Islamic State militants ‘neutralized’ in air strikes, clashes
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes and artillery have struck Islamic State targets in Syria, ‘neutralizing’ 38 of the group’s militants, Turkey’s military said in a statement on Thursday.
Central African Republic Christians, Muslims unite to heal trauma
BANGUI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Blindfolds secured tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the compound of an international charity in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui.
Taiwan ATM heist linked to European hacking spree: security firm
BOSTON/TAIPEI (Reuters) – The group that orchestrated the theft of over $2 million from cash machines at Taiwan’s First Commercial Bank in July was also behind an ATM hacking spree in more than a dozen European nations last year, according to cyber sec…
China probes party official in restive Xinjiang days after attack
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is investigating a Communist Party official in the restive western region of Xinjiang on suspicion of “serious disciplinary breaches”, the graft watchdog said on Thursday, days after an attack on a government building in his p…
