China jails nine over protests in ‘democracy’ village
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in southern China has handed out jail terms of up to 10 years to nine people from a Chinese fishing village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy after finding them guilty of illegal protests and other charges.
Syrian army escalates campaign to capture Damascus water supply
AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army escalated aerial bombing of a rebel-held valley northwest of Damascus in an offensive begun last week to recapture the strategic area where a major spring provides most of the capital’s water supplies, rebels and resid…
Saudi Arabia launches campaign to collect funds for Syrians displaced by war
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has launched a fundraising campaign for Syrians displaced by a five-year civil war, including those evacuated from eastern Aleppo, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.
Netanyahu seeks to rally Israelis around him in anti-Obama assault
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its “shameful” decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli settlement-buildi…
Chinese carrier enters South China Sea amid renewed tension
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island’s Defence Ministry said of what China has termed a rout…
New Egyptian law establishes media regulator picked by president
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will pick a regulator and members of a new media council under a law passed on Monday, giving the body the power to fine or suspend publications and broadcasters and give or revoke licenses for …
Exclusive: Fresh advance in east Mosul to begin within days – U.S. commander
EAST OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to…
Cafeteria manager jailed for insulting Turkey’s Erdogan, lawyer says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have arrested the cafeteria manager of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper for insulting the president after he said he would not serve tea to Tayyip Erdogan, one of the manager’s lawyers told Reuters on Monday….
Human error led to Colombia soccer plane crash: authorities
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Errors by the pilot, airline and Bolivian regulators are to blame for a plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 people last month, including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team, Colombia aviation authorities said on Monday.
Video shows fleeing Berlin truck attack suspect in Lyon: judicial source
PARIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian suspect behind the truck attack that killed 12 people in a Berlin Christmas market last week appears to have passed through Lyon in France as he fled to Italy, a French judicial source said on Monday.
