‘Barking mad’ Trump looms over Australian election campaign
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Donald Trump cast his highly coiffed shadow over the Australian election on Friday when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rebuked his challenger for calling the U.S. Republican party’s presumptive presidential nominee “barking mad”.
China eyes turning South China Sea islands into Maldives-style resorts
BEIJING (Reuters) – China aims to turn some of the islands in the disputed South China Sea into Maldives-style resorts catering for weddings with new developments on areas that don’t need a military presence, a state-run newspaper quoted a top official…
After sea spat, China pledges deeper defense ties with Indonesia
BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants deeper military ties with Indonesia and will strengthen cooperation on bilateral and multilateral issues, China’s defense minister told his Indonesian counterpart, after a recent diplomatic spat in the South China Sea.
Missing journalists held captive by Colombia’s ELN rebels: government
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The Colombian Marxist rebel group, the National Liberation Army, has kidnapped three journalists, including one from Spain, who disappeared in recent days near the border with Venezuela, government officials said on Thursday.
As ties deepen, elite U.S., Vietnam forces eye possible opening
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Special operations forces from the United States and Vietnam are signaling a readiness to start forging ties should their governments choose to do so, in what would be a major step in relations between militaries that were at wa…
Panama’s top court seeks extradition of ex-president Martinelli from U.S.
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panama’s Supreme Court on Thursday called on the Central American country’s government to request the extradition of former President Ricardo Martinelli from the United States.
Italy says migrant boat capsized, second in two days
ROME (Reuters) – A migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean on Thursday and while about 100 passengers were rescued, an unknown number are feared dead, officials said.
France sends underwater probes to EgyptAir search zone
CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) – A French naval vessel was en route to the eastern Mediterranean on Thursday to join the hunt for black boxes from a crashed EgyptAir jet, equipped with three specialist probes from a French company recruited to accelerate the se…
Pentagon says China aircraft intercept violated 2015 agreement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon has concluded that an intercept of a U.S. military aircraft by Chinese fighter jets last week over the South China Sea violated an agreement the two governments signed last year, a U.S. defense official said on Thurs…
Ivory Coast arrests man suspected of link to Grand Bassam hotel attack
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast authorities arrested a man on Thursday suspected of transporting weapons for an attack that killed 19 people at the beach resort of Grand Bassam in March, according to national television.
