China casts HK protest teenager as ‘American-led Western power’
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s top prosecution body has cast a thin, bespectacled teenage activist from Hong Kong as a pro-independence advocate backed by the United States in an online video that warns against uprising movements across the country.
Newly elected protectionist senators could harm Australia’s trade ties
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Four weeks after Australians went to the polls in a tightly contested election, vote counting is almost finished and has left the government with a razor-thin majority and a Senate brimming with economic protectionists who could hind…
Desperate and depressed, Syrian refugees in Greece regret leaving home
ATHENS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – If Mustafa had known what it would be like living in a refugee camp in the Greek capital, he would never have left Syria.
Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days
GUAVIARE, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombian law enforcement has destroyed 104 cocaine laboratories capable of producing some 100 tonnes of the drug annually, the head of the anti-narcotics police said on Tuesday.
Bangladesh’s missing militant link: the threat from abroad
DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – When Bangladeshi authorities last month released the names of 261 men who have gone missing from their families, in an attempt to find militants hidden in this country of 160 million people, at the very end of the list was “…
Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian chemist Zewail dies
CAIRO (Reuters) – Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the United States, his spokesman told Egypt…
Japanese PM Abe to pick hawkish ally for defense in cabinet rejig
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was widely expected to appoint conservative ally Tomomi Inada as defense minister on Wednesday, a move that could upset China and South Korea, while keeping key ministers in their posts in a cabinet …
UK lawmakers say Europe’s efforts over migration crisis ‘lamentable’
LONDON (Reuters) – European Union attempts to tackle the migration crisis have been a failure, amounting to “too little, too late” with not enough being done to tackle people-smugglers, a committee of British lawmakers said on Wednesday.
Rescuers say toxic gas dropped on Syrian town where Russian helicopter shot down
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter had been shot down hours earlier.
Libyan forces wary of Islamic State redoubt despite U.S. support
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – A day after the United States began a formal campaign of air strikes against Islamic State’s stronghold in Libya, anti-IS fighters welcomed Washington’s involvement but remained wary of advancing for fear of mines and snipers.
