Australia agrees to close controversial refugee detention center
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia and Papua New Guinea on Wednesday said they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention center on Manus Island, although the ultimate fate of 800 refugees held in the camp remained unclear….
Front-runner to lead Japanese opposition says PM’s ‘Abenomics’ has stalled
TOKYO (Reuters) – The clear favorite to become the first female leader of Japan’s biggest opposition party believes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s signature “Abenomics” policy has stalled and a change of gear is needed to favor people over corporations.
China to limit North Korean airline’s operations after forced landing
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will limit the operations of North Korean carrier Air Koryo after one of its aircraft made an emergency landing in a northeastern Chinese city last month, and has told the airline to improve training and maintenance.
Exclusive: Civil war costs Yemen $14 billion in damage and economic losses – report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen’s civil war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort needed to rebuild the country, where m…
Militants ambush Indian army convoy in Kashmir, three dead
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Militants ambushed an Indian military convoy in Kashmir on Wednesday, killing three personnel, in an escalation of violence that officials have blamed on separatist protests that have tied down security forces for more than …
China, ASEAN aim to complete framework of South China Sea rules next year
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and a grouping of Southeast Asian nations aim to finish by the middle of next year a framework for a code of conduct to ease tension in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Wednesday.
U.S. lobbies China again on missile defence system
BEIJING (Reuters) – A decision by the United States and South Korea to deploy an advanced anti-missile defence system is aimed at defending against North Korea’s missile threat and does not threaten China, a senior U.S. officer said in Beijing on Tuesd…
Exclusive: ‘I just want to go home’, says first Chibok schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram
ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast Nigeria said on Tuesday in her first interview that she just wants to go home.
Stigma ‘killing’ South Africans living with HIV
DURBAN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tania has to shout to be heard over music blasting out of a brothel in downtown Durban, South Africa, where dozens of sex workers slouch in chairs under the red glow of the bar or lean against walls a…
Brazil justice authorizes probe on Rousseff, TV says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian Federal Supreme Court justice has authorized the opening of an investigation into President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for allegedly working to obstruct the course of a sweeping corruption probe, GloboNews news channel said on Tuesday.
