Proposals to curb online speech viewed as threat to open internet
SAN FRANCISCO/ TORONTO (Reuters) – At least a dozen countries are considering or have enacted laws restricting online speech, a trend that is alarming policymakers and others who see the internet as a valuable medium for debate and expression.
Greece’s bailout funds released; EU’s Juncker hails Greek efforts
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece got more than 7 billion euros in bailout funds on Tuesday after a review of the country’s progress in implementing economic reforms, the head of the euro zone’s bailout fund told reporters in Athens.
In Brexit vote, echoes of Trumpism minus Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – To U.S. voters who have witnessed the rise of Donald Trump, the campaign urging Britain to abandon the European Union may appear eerily familiar.
German court rejects appeal by Turkish president in Springer case
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German appeals court on Tuesday said it had rejected an appeal filed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan after a lower court refused to grant him an injunction against the CEO of German publisher Axel Springer.
Bahrain move against Shi’ite leader ‘clearly unjustified’: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Bahrain’s decision to revoke the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the kingdom’s Shi’ite Muslim majority is “clearly unjustified” under international law, a spokeswoman for the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday.
Egyptian court voids deal to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court declared void on Tuesday a maritime border accord with Saudi Arabia that would have seen Egypt lose control of two Red Sea islands, judicial sources said.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian bystander after Israeli cars attacked
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops mistakenly killed a Palestinian bystander on Tuesday while responding with gunfire to a petrol bomb and rock attack on Israeli vehicles in the occupied West Bank, the military said.
Australian PM ends longest running Aboriginal land claim
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday settled the nation’s longest-running land rights claim, handing Aborigines land title deeds wrapped in eucalyptus paperbark to a peninsula on Darwin harbor in the tropical north….
Hong Kong presses Beijing on case of missing booksellers
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday he had asked China whether its handling of the booksellers case violated the “one country, two systems” formula under which the city returned to Chinese rule, the strongest response yet from the …
Taliban kidnap at least 25 men from buses in Afghanistan’s south
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand stopped vehicles and detained at least 25 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on Afghanistan’s highways over the past few we…
