New blow for Australian leader as conservative quits to form new party
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was left teetering on the brink of a minority government on Tuesday when a prominent lawmaker quit to form a new conservative party, more bad news as Turnbull’s popularity ratings plumb new …
South Korea’s prosecutor says indicts former top Park aide, ex-minister
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s special prosecutor has indicted a former culture minister and a former top aide to President Park Geun-hye on charges of abuse of power, coercion and perjury for their role in drafting a blacklist of dissenting artists, …
Netanyahu, Trump align on Iran ahead of Israeli leader’s visit
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seizing on an Iranian missile test, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and new U.S. President Donald Trump are nearing common ground on a tougher U.S. policy towards Tehran ahead of their first face-to-face talks…
Israel legalizes settler homes on private Palestinian land
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel passed a law on Monday retroactively legalizing about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, a measure that has drawn international concern.
Kremlin says it wants apology from Fox News over Putin comments
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were “unacceptable” comments one of the channel’s presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. counterpart Donald Tru…
Kuwait’s new opera house complex catches fire, no casualties
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Flames ripped through the complex housing Kuwait’s new opera house on Monday, just three months after the futuristic $770-million venue opened to the public.
Trump summit with Japan’s Abe to include round of golf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will play a round of golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Florida this week and said he will make sure the Japanese leader is his partner in the game, rather than a competitor.
Brazil’s Temer taps political ally for top court amid graft probe
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Michel Temer nominated Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking to place a close political ally on the tribunal as it rules on a graft scandal threatening his gover…
U.S. ‘deeply troubled’ by U.N. report of Myanmar atrocities against Muslims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply troubled” by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar’s Rakhine State had committed atrocities against minority Muslims, the State Department said on Monday.
Woman in Vatileaks trial got messages via confession box: book
ROME (Reuters) – The woman convicted of helping leak Vatican documents says in a new book that an official in a key office of the Holy See left her secret messages in the confession box of a Rome church during the trial.
