Brushing aside objections, Nobel laureates visit Pyongyang
BEIJING (Reuters) – A group of Nobel laureates visited sanctions-bound North Korea over the last week despite objections from South Korea, saying they wanted to extend an olive branch by bringing non-political, academic diplomacy to the isolated nuclea…
Images show North Korea may be preparing fifth nuclear test: think tank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea may be preparing to carry out a fifth nuclear test in the near future judging by commercial satellite images of the country’s nuclear test site taken on May 5, a U.S. think tank said on Friday.
Uber Mexico City driver accused of rape detained by prosecutors
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A driver for ride-hailing app Uber was detained in Mexico City after a female passenger accused him of raping her, a spokeswoman from the city’s prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
Turkish journalists jailed for five years, hours after courthouse attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Two prominent Turkish journalists were sentenced to at least five years in jail for revealing state secrets on Friday, just hours after a gunman tried to shoot one of them outside the courthouse in Istanbul.
Russia says truce extended for 72 hours in Aleppo, Latakia
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russia’s defense ministry said a “regime of calm” truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and parts of Latakia province had been extended “for 72 hours beginning at 1 a.m. on Saturday” (1700 ET on Friday), Syrian state news agenc…
U.S. says it killed 10 al Qaeda militants in Yemen April air strikes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States killed 10 al Qaeda militants and wounded one in four air strikes in late April, targeting the group’s branch in Yemen, a U.S. military statement said on Friday.
EU’s Juncker sees refugee crisis at ‘turning point’
BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe’s migrant crisis is at a “turning point” thanks to a deal with Turkey to stem the number of new arrivals which is showing its first successes, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in comments published on Sat…
U.S. rights official travels to Vietnam ahead of Obama visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department’s most senior human rights diplomat, Tom Malinowski, will visit Vietnam next week to urge it to make more progress on human rights, the department said on Friday.
Former East German dictator Honecker’s widow dies in Chile: local media
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Margot Honecker, the widow of the former East German leader Erich Honecker, died on Friday in Chile, where she had been residing for over two decades, local television station TVN and CNN Chile said.
Three Red Cross staff kidnapped in Congo are free: ICRC
DAKAR (Reuters) – Three Red Cross staff members kidnapped three days ago in eastern Congo in an attack blamed by a rights group on Rwandan rebels, have been released, the Geneva-based organization said on Friday.
