Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders’ homes, not prisons
SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) – When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail.
Australian parliament rejects bill for same-sex marriage vote
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Same-sex marriage will likely be delayed for at least three years in Australia after the opposition Labor party said on Tuesday it would not support a national vote, dealing another potential blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Thai police warn of Bangkok bomb plot, step up security
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Police in Thailand on Tuesday said they have increased security at major landmarks in the capital Bangkok, at airports and in surrounding provinces following reports of bomb plots just weeks after deadly attacks rocked the country’s…
Brazil lawmakers pass spending cap in boost to Temer’s austerity drive
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved a landmark proposal to cap public spending in a first-round vote on Monday, a major victory for President Michel Temer’s efforts to regain market confidence and pull the economy out of its …
German spy chief says Syrian suspect targeted Berlin airports
BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on Monday was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin.
Russia and Turkey sign gas deal, seek common ground on Syria as ties warm
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Monday for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a …
Economists from Britain, Finland win Nobel for research on pay, rewards
STOCKHOLM/CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – British-born Oliver Hart and Finland’s Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work that addresses a host of questions from how best to reward executives to whether schools and prisons should …
Colombia’s Uribe presents proposals for peace accord changes
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe on Monday proposed that leaders of the Marxist FARC rebel group lose their freedom for at least five years and they would be banned from elected office as part of changes to a peace deal betwe…
China denies allegations its peacekeepers abandoned South Sudan posts
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s defense ministry has rejected as “malicious speculation” allegations by a U.S.-based group that Chinese peacekeepers had abandoned their posts in South Sudan in July instead of protecting civilians.
Shooting deaths, school closures worsen Rio crime wave
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police killed at least two suspected drug traffickers on Monday during a day-long shootout in the hills overlooking one of Rio de Janeiro’s wealthiest districts, the latest in a wave of violent clashes that elsewhere in the c…
