South Africa’s Zuma survives no-confidence motion by own party: newspaper
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma has survived a motion of no confidence by his own party, Beeld, an Afrikaans-language daily reported on Tuesday without naming its sources.
Businessman Moise wins Haiti election in first round: provisional results
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitians have chosen banana exporter Jovenel Moise as their next president, provisional results released by the election council on Monday showed, with the political novice winning a majority and avoiding a second round runof…
China paper says Singapore troop carriers should be ‘melted down’
BEIJING (Reuters) – Armored troop carriers belonging to Singapore and currently impounded in Hong Kong should be “melted down”, China’s influential state-run tabloid the Global Times said on Tuesday, in its second swipe at the island nation in two days…
Fewer North Korean workers come to China as border trade tightens
DANDONG, China (Reuters) – A labor agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the “Friendship Bridge” at China’s main border post with North Korea. He had come to pick up migrant workers and take them to jobs in factories and restaurants in China.
South Korea trade minister: FTA with U.S. benefited bilateral trade
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s trade minister said on Tuesday the existing free trade agreement with the United States has benefited both countries and Asia’s fourth-biggest economy is hopeful of making more strides under U.S. President-elect Donald T…
‘Viva Fidel!’: Tens of thousands pay last respects to Cuba’s Castro
HAVANA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Cubans, some wrapped in red, white and blue national flags, paid final respects in Havana on Monday to Fidel Castro, who led a leftist revolution, ruled for half a century and resisted the United States throughou…
Malaysian DJ samples indigenous music to spread land rights message
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Atama Katama had spent a decade through the 1990s DJ-ing hip hop at clubs across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand when a fellow DJ asked him a question that sparked his curiosity about his indigenous …
Drug smuggling at ports in Peru rises as dockworkers lured: government
LIMA (Reuters) – Drug trafficking from Peruvian ports has risen in recent years as criminal networks groom dockworkers to smuggle packets of cocaine into shipping containers, the country’s new anti-narcotics agency, Devida, said on Monday.
Under U.S. plan, Afghans may get Black Hawks to replace Russian aircraft
KABUL (Reuters) – The U.S. military wants to replace Afghanistan’s well-worn fleet of Russian helicopters with American-made aircraft, according to a new budget proposal, a decision aimed at reducing the Afghan air force’s decades-long reliance on Russ…
U.N. Security Council to vote Wednesday on North Korea sanctions: diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Wednesday to impose new sanctions on North Korea for its fifth and largest nuclear test, slashing Pyongyang’s export earnings by some $800 million, diplomats said on Monda…
