Rebel shelling kills children at school in west Aleppo: government, monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Shelling by Syrian rebels killed several children at a school in government-held western Aleppo on Thursday, state media and a monitoring group said, just a day after air strikes on a school in a rebel-held village in Idlib, 50km (32…
All hail the mighty uncle – Chinese welcome Xi as the “core”
BEIJING (Reuters) – Hailing “mighty Uncle Xi”, Chinese people have taken to social media using an old imperial term to welcome President Xi Jinping’s naming by the Communist Party as its “core”, despite party efforts to limit his cult of personality.
Philippine mayor among 10 killed in shootout as drug war enters new phase
MANILA (Reuters) – A mayor on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s wanted list for alleged drugs links was killed along with nine of his guards in a shootout on Friday, police said, as a new phase of a bloody narcotics crackdown zeroed-in on high pro…
World’s largest marine park created in Antarctic Ocean
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Twenty-four countries and the European Union agreed on Friday to create the world’s largest marine park in the Antarctic Ocean, covering a massive 1.55 million square km (600,000 square miles) of ocean.
Two senior Chinese officers expelled from Communist Party
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled from its ranks two senior military officers for corruption, state media said, part of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping campaign against graft in all sectors of the government.
World Bank appoints first adviser to tackle LGBTI discrimination
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The World Bank has appointed its first adviser tasked with promoting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) issues in its development work.
Struggling Indian savers threaten Modi’s growth ambition
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – For India’s dream of taking the baton of global growth from China, its savings rate is flashing a warning sign.
Venezuela court annuls Congress probe of $11 billion missing at PDVSA
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top court on Thursday approved an injunction against a congressional probe that found Rafael Ramirez, the former president of state oil company PDVSA, was responsible for corruption and malfeasance that cost the firm $11…
Yemen’s Houthis launch missile toward Saudi holy city
RIYADH (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi militia launched a ballistic missile toward Mecca on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen’s civil war said on Saudi state news agency SPA.
Turkish, Syrian men extradited to U.S. to face drug charges
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said two men from Syria and Turkey have been extradited to face criminal charges that they tried to sell military-grade weapons to purported Mexican drug traffickers to help them ship cocaine to the United State…
