Macron favorite, voter certainty rises in French election: Le Monde poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen are tied on 25 percent of the first-round election vote, although Macron would go on to beat Le Pen in the second round, a Le Monde/Cevipof opini…
U.S. navy aid unit told to leave Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy aid unit has been told to leave Cambodia, the U.S. embassy said, in a new sign of the Southeast Asian country loosening links with Washington as it strengthens ties with Beijing.
Malaysia rights panel disturbed over more than 600 deaths in prisons and detention centers
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s national human rights panel on Tuesday said it was disturbed by more than 600 deaths at immigration detention centers and prisons over the last two years, and called for immediate reform.
China, ASEAN make progress on framework deal on disputed sea, Philippines says
MANILA (Reuters) – China and Southeast Asian countries have made progress in talks on a code of conduct for the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine acting foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Russian metro bomb suspect a Muslim born in central Asia: investigators
OSH, Kyrgyzstan/ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian suicide bomber originally from mainly Muslim Kyrgyzstan detonated the explosives in a St Petersburg train carriage that killed 14 people and wounded 50, authorities said on Tuesday.
Scores reported killed in gas attack on Syrian rebel area
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A suspected Syrian government chemical attack killed scores of people, including children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a monitoring group, medics and rescue workers in the rebel-held area said.
Hungary readies vote to rein in Soros-founded university
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary may approve a new law as soon as Tuesday that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country despite a protest against the plan in Budapest and condemnation abroad.
Anger burns on Vietnam’s poisoned coast a year after spill
QUANG TRI, Vietnam (Reuters) – “The big fish are all dead,” complained 50 year-old Mai Xuan Hoa, picking small fish from a net as he tried to rebuild his livelihood a year after Vietnam’s worst environmental disaster.
Likely suspect in St. Petersburg blast is Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen
BISHKEK (Reuters) – The likely suspect in a deadly blast in the Russian city of St. Petersburg is a Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen, Kyrgyzstan’s security service said on Tuesday.
Somalia’s al Shabaab takes town after Ethiopian troops leave, official says
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group has taken control of El Bur, a town in the Horn of Africa’s semi-autonomous region of Galmudug, after Ethiopian forces left, a government official has said.
