Myanmar frees BBC reporter from jail after appeal
YANGON (Reuters) – A journalist from the BBC’s Myanmar-language service walked free from prison on Thursday after a court accepted his appeal against a three-month sentence handed down in June for striking a policeman.
Hungary’s Orban says ‘obvious connection’ between terrorism and migration
WARSAW (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday there was a clear link between illegal immigration to Europe and terrorist attacks on the continent.
Britain needs Brexit debate, says woman behind legal challenge
LONDON (Reuters) – Many British voters were fooled into voting to quit the European Union without realizing there was no credible plan for an exit, so lawmakers must decide how and whether to leave, said the investment manager behind a Brexit legal cha…
Trusted allies: why Putin won’t fire sports minister over doping scandal
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin risks personal humiliation if all Russian competitors are banned from the Rio Olympics over doping, as now seems possible; yet the man on whose watch this may happen, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, is not bein…
U.S. sues to seize $1 billion in assets tied to Malaysian state fund
WASHINGTON/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors are trying to seize more than $1 billion in assets they said were tied to money stolen from the Malaysian state fund, overseen by the prime minister, and used to finance “The Wolf of Wall Street” fil…
Indonesia shrugs off Pokemon fatwa as gaming fever takes hold
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Avid players of smash-hit mobile phone game Pokemon GO in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, are not letting religious decrees or security warnings get in the way of their mission to catch their next cartoon c…
U.S. ship visit set to end standoff with New Zealand over nuclear policy
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy plans to send a ship to New Zealand in November, Prime Minister John Key said on Thursday, formally ending a standoff over the Pacific nation’s anti-nuclear policy that dates back more than 30 years.
Bangladesh arrests four militants in hunt for cafe attack Islamists
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s security force arrested four members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) on Thursday, including a regional leader of the banned group blamed for the Islamist attack on a cafe in Dhaka in which 22 people were killed, mostly fore…
South Korea’s Park calls for unity over THAAD deployment
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Thursday the move to deploy a THAAD missile defense system was “inevitable” because of a growing threat from North Korea and that division in the South over its deployment is what Pyongyang…
UK nuclear submarine in ‘glancing collision’ near Gibraltar, no reactor damage
LONDON (Reuters) – A British nuclear Astute-class submarine was involved in a ‘glancing collision’ with a merchant vessel off the coast of the peninsula of Gibraltar on Wednesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said.
