Thailand frees prominent activist over royal insult
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand has freed a political activist after eight years in jail for insulting the country’s widely revered monarchy under its draconian royal defamation laws.
Fire kills 17 Kyrgyz nationals in Moscow printing plant
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A fire in a Moscow printing plant killed 17 people on Saturday, officials said, and a representative of the Kyrgyz diaspora in Russia said all the dead were members of its community.
France expels two Moroccans considered serious security threat
PARIS (Reuters) – France has deported two Moroccan nationals seen as a serious security threat after they became radicalized as Islamist militants, the interior ministry said in a statement late on Friday.
Iranian refugee detained in Papua New Guinea wins cartooning award
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Iranian refugee held at an Australian-funded detention center in Papua New Guinea has won a political cartooning award for his work depicting life inside the camp.
British PM to trigger Brexit without vote by lawmakers: Telegraph
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote on Brexit before formally triggering Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday, without specifying sources.
Turkey signals no quick end to Syria incursion as truck bomb kills police
ISTANBUL/KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse the border of Islamic State and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday, after a truck bombing by Kurdish insurgents kil…
Malaysian student protesters demand 1MDB arrest
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Nearly a thousand protesters marched in the heart of the Malaysian capital on Saturday calling for the arrest of an unnamed high-ranking government official who U.S. investigators say received $700 million skimmed from a sovere…
Taliban fighters overrun district in eastern Afghanistan
GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents overran a district in eastern Afghanistan, killing and wounding dozens of police and soldiers and threatening strategically important road routes to Pakistan, officials said on Saturday.
El Salvador frees three ex-military officials linked to 1989 murders
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Supreme Court on Friday released three former military personnel who had been detained over the 1989 murder of a group of Jesuit priests.
U.N. Security Council condemns North Korea missile launches
SEOUL (Reuters) – The UN Security Council late on Friday condemned a series of missile launches by North Korea after failing to do so earlier this month when China had wanted a statement also to oppose the planned deployment of a U.S. anti-missile syst…
