North Korea fires short-range projectiles into sea amid tension over nuclear ambitions
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened tension over the isolated country’s nuclear and rocket programs.
Indonesia says it feels peace efforts on South China Sea ‘sabotaged’
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia “feels sabotaged” in its efforts to maintain peace in the disputed South China Sea and may bring its latest maritime altercation with China to an international court, a minister said on Monday.
Possible debris from Malaysia Airlines MH370 arrives in Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Debris found earlier this month off the southeast African coast which some believe could be from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight has arrived in Australia for testing, officials said on Monday, two years after the plane disappeared…
Vietnam parliament to put new leadership to work early
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s outgoing parliament convened for a final session on Monday that will see a new leadership and cabinet take office three months early, ditching the normal route of the public electing a new legislature first.
Kuwait expels 14 accused of Hezbollah links: report
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwait has expelled 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis suspected of belonging to Hezbollah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Monday, nearly three weeks after the country joined other Gulf Arab states in designating the Lebanese Shi’ite group…
Belgium says captured Paris suspect may have planned more attacks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks may have been plotting more operations with the help of a weapons cache and a network of associates, Belgium’s foreign minister said on Sunday.
Kazakh leader’s party wins landslide in snap parliamentary vote
ASTANA (Reuters) – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Nur Otan party won a landslide in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election by capturing 82 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results announced on Monday.
Curfew lifted in area of southeast Turkey, security tight for festival
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish authorities lifted a curfew imposed to fight Kurdish militants in an area of southeast Turkey’s largest city, Diyarbakir, on Monday but security was tight as Kurds celebrated the Newroz spring festival.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi unlikely to take formal role in new government
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is unlikely to take a formal position in the incoming government of her National League for Democracy (NLD), a senior official said, and will control the administration through her posit…
Somali militants overrun military base, killing at least one
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Somali military base southwest of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing at least one person and seizing vehicles and other equipment, the government and the militants said.
