China newspapers say call with Taiwan’s Tsai shows Trump’s inexperience
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese state media on Monday continued to play down the protocol-bending phone call last week between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan’s president, with editorials in two newspapers saying the move showed Trump’s inexp…
Fidel Castro interred in rock, closing last chapter of historic life
SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro’s ashes were encased in a large granite boulder on Sunday in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning and aimed to literally set in stone the legacy of one of the 20th century’s mos…
In fear after attacks, gay Bangladeshis retreat into closet and flee abroad
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Seven months after al Qaeda-linked militants hacked Bangladesh’s most prominent gay activist to death, the South Asian country’s LGBT community remains in hiding, while more than a dozen LGBT people have fled abro…
Netanyahu to discuss ‘bad’ Iran deal with Trump, Kerry stresses settlements
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would discuss with Donald Trump the West’s “bad” nuclear deal with Iran after the U.S. president-elect enters the White House.
Fleeing Aleppo fighting, Syrians describe terrifying choices
BEIRUT (Reuters) – As Syrian government forces advanced into Aleppo’s rebel-held al-Sakhour district, Hasan al-Ali said he faced the choice of staying put and being caught by the army, or fleeing into a shrinking rebel enclave under relentless bombardm…
Demonstrators march in Brazil to support corruption crackdown
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Demonstrators protested across Brazil on Sunday to denounce corruption and a congressional vote perceived as an effort to intimidate judges and prosecutors leading graft probes.
Local official, two journalists shot and killed in Finnish town
HELSINKI (Reuters) – A local politician and two journalists, all of them women, were shot dead with a rifle in front of a restaurant in the Finnish town of Imatra, police said on Sunday.
Rebels defiant as Syrian army nears Aleppo’s Old City
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s army and allied militia advanced towards rebel-held areas of Aleppo’s Old City on Sunday in an attack which a military source predicted would be over in a matter of weeks.
Women, children leave Islamic State holdout in Sirte: Libyan forces
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan forces said at least 10 women and children left the last cluster of buildings controlled by Islamic State in the group’s former stronghold of Sirte on Sunday, adding that they had edged closer to taking full control of…
Uzbekistan’s interim leader expected to win presidential election
TASHKENT (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s prime minister and interim president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, looked likely to win a presidential election on Sunday by a landslide and become the second leader of Central Asia’s most populous nation since independence.
