Macau billionaire in U.N. bribe case to face January 2017 trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Macau real estate developer and his assistant will face a federal trial in January on U.S. charges that they engaged in a bribery scheme with a former United Nations General Assembly president who died last month, a judge said on…
U.S. transfers two Guantanamo inmates to Serbia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two inmates from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Serbia on Monday as the Obama administration pressed ahead with its long-held goal of shutting the widely condemned facility at the U.S. naval base i…
Turkey blocks investigations into southeast killings: Rights group
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s government is blocking access to independent investigations into alleged mass abuses against civilians in southeast Turkey, where security forces are fighting Kurdish militants, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
U.S. issues travel warning for Bangladesh after cafe attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday warned Americans to consider carefully whether they need to travel to Bangladesh following a series of attacks claimed by Islamist militants.
Srebrenica buries 127 victims of massacre, Serbs absent over genocide denial
SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Thousands of Muslim Bosniaks paid respect to 127 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre buried in individual graves on Monday in a ceremony avoided by Serbs after survivors said they were not welcome because they denied …
Irish PM resists call from within party to step down
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny resisted a call on Monday from a lawmaker of his Fine Gael party to step down over the next two months, rejecting the first open challenge to make good on a promise to allow a change of leadership.
‘Terrorists’ smuggled into Europe with refugees, Merkel says
BERLIN (Reuters) – Militant groups smuggled some of their members into Europe in the wave of migrants who have fled from Syria, German Chancellor Angela said on Monday.
Canadian PM says Russia not been ‘positive partner’ on Minsk ceasefire
KIEV (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that Russia has not been a “positive partner” as regards its obligations in the Minsk ceasefire agreement to end a Russian-backed separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Revising Japan’s pacifist charter not easy despite poll win: PM
TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking to allay concern he would divert attention from fixing a fragile economy to revising a pacifist constitution after a big election win, said on Monday changing the charter would not …
Reports leading PKK militant killed in Syria not confirmed: Turkey
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has not been able to confirm reports that a senior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) commander had been killed in Syria, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday, in what would be a major blow to Kurdish militants.
