EU’s Tower of Babel may fall while leaders distracted
PARIS (Reuters) – It’s little wonder the European Union can’t find common solutions to Europe’s urgent problems when its main members are having such different national conversations.
Indonesia demolishes capital’s largest red-light district
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Bulldozers started demolishing hundreds of buildings in the Indonesian capital’s largest red-light district on Monday as part of a nationwide effort to eradicate prostitution in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
Twin suicide bombing kills 70 in Baghdad’s deadliest attack this year
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A twin suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 70 people in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad on Sunday in the deadliest attack inside the capital this year, as militants launched an assault on its western outskirts.
China to prosecute two senior officials from Xinjiang over graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled two senior officials in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang for corruption and transferred them to prosecutors, an anti-graft watchdog said.
Syria’s war liberates Kurdish women as it oppresses others
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nubohar Mustafa is proud of what her leaders and fellow activists have done for Kurdish women in northern Syria.
Islamist group kills 30 in twin blasts in Somali town
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group bombed a busy junction and a nearby restaurant in the town of Baidoa on Sunday, killing at least 30 people, police and the group said.
Japanese Emperor Akihito diagnosed with influenza
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Emperor Akihito, 82, has been diagnosed with influenza after suffering a fever over the weekend, the Imperial Household Agency said on Monday, without giving further details.
‘Radical’ candidate in Hong Kong poll exposes underlying tensions
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday in a legislative council by-election, with a “radical” pro-democracy candidate who was arrested in a recent riot running in what is being seen as a barometer of political tension in the financia…
Top Vatican Cardinal says Church made enormous mistakes over sex abuse
ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Cardinal George Pell said on Sunday the Catholic Church made “enormous mistakes” and dismissed cases of sexual abuse of children in “scandalous circumstances”, as he became the highest-ranking Vatican official to test…
Indonesia government to back revisions to anti-graft law: senior minister
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government will back controversial revisions to the law governing its top anti-graft agency, a senior cabinet minister said in a statement on Monday.
