UK’s May is throwing full weight behind winning best Brexit deal: spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May is throwing the full weight of government behind her goal of winning the best Brexit deal for Britain but will not trigger the formal divorce procedure before the end of the year, her spokesman said on Mond…
Thailand avoids linking bloody insurgency to tourist site blasts
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Within hours of last week’s deadly bomb and arson attacks in Thailand, police and senior officials publicly ruled out any link to foreign militants and insisted the perpetrators, as yet unidentified, were homegrown.
South African baby-snatcher sentenced to 10 years in jail
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A South African woman found guilty of kidnapping a newly-born baby was given a 10 year prison sentence on Monday, almost two decades after she snatched the child from her biological mother’s hospital bedside, a court official said.
U.N.’s Ban condemns Yemen school attack, coalition says Houthi facility targeted
DUBAI (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an air strike on a school in northern Yemen that killed 10 children and called for an investigation, while the Saudi-led coalition said the attack had targeted a training facility run by th…
Modi, in address, chides Pakistan and urges Indian unity
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at supporters of “terrorism” in his Independence Day speech on Monday, ratcheting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding direct mention of month-long protests in Indian-ruled Kashmir.
Iraqi parliament approves former South Oil head as oil minister
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s parliament approved on Monday the appointment of Jabar Ali al-Luaibi, a former head of state-run South Oil Company, as oil minister in an overhaul of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s cabinet, state television said.
Plumes of smoke at Singapore station caused by fault: media
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Billowing smoke that spread alarm at an underground train station in central Singapore on Monday was apparently caused by a technical fault, media reported.
South Korea expresses regret as Japan leaders pay tribute to wartime shrine
TOKYO (Reuters) – South Korea expressed deep regret and China’s state-run news agency called on Tokyo to repent its wartime past on Monday after dozens of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine for war dead, which Seoul and Beijing see as a symbol of Toky…
Taliban capture key district in Afghan north
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents, seeking to force the NATO-led coalition out of Afghanistan and bring in Islamic law, captured a key district in the northern province of Baghlan away after days of fighting, officials said on Monday.
Boko Haram video claims to show missing Nigerian school girls
BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago, and saying some of them have been killed in air strikes.
