Support for Australian PM falls, sets scene for potential leadership tensions
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Support for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at its lowest level since his election last year, according to an opinion poll on Tuesday, fuelling speculation of more political upheaval in a country that has seen four lead…
Venezuela opposition bickers over dialogue with government
CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Leaders of Venezuela’s opposition coalition publicly argued on Monday as its major factions turned against a surprise plan to hold talks with the unpopular government of President Nicolas Maduro.
U.N. envoys urge Myanmar to probe killings, arrests in Muslim-majority region
YANGON (Reuters) – U.N. human rights experts have called on Myanmar to investigate allegations that security forces have killed unarmed civilians, burned villages and made arbitrary arrests in a Muslim-majority region where a crackdown has followed att…
China says has political promise from West on graft fight
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has been given a political promise by Western countries that they will not become havens for corrupt fugitives, a senior official told state television, though he offered no assurances to assuage concerns about mistreatment of…
Blast kills 14, injures 147 in northwestern China
BEIJING (Reuters) – A powerful blast at a prefabricated house in northwestern China on Monday killed at least 14 people and injured 147, state news agency Xinhua said.
Uruguay’s ex-president Batlle dies at 88
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Jorge Batlle, a veteran politician who was the fourth member of his Catalan immigrant family to be president of Uruguay, died on Monday, a day before his 89th birthday.
Deputy minister in Peru faces possible jail time in graft case
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors on Monday asked a court to sentence a deputy minister accused of graft to nine years in prison, in a case that could undermine President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s bid to show he is tough on corruption.
Philippines’ Duterte softens stance toward U.S. before Japan visit
TOKYO (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte softened his remarks about a “separation” from long-time ally the United States on the eve of a visit to Japan, a country worried about Manila’s apparent pivot away from Washington and toward China…
As Syrian deaths mount, world’s ‘responsibility to protect’ takes a hit: experts
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo are battered by air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, what has happened to the world’s responsibility to protect populations under threat?
Peru scrutinizes pacts between police and miners after clash
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru is scrutinizing paid security services that federal police provide to mining companies following a deadly protest by local residents that suspended exports from one of the world’s biggest copper mines, the government told Reuters …
