Macedonia postpones elections under EU, U.S. pressure
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonian lawmakers postponed national elections scheduled for April, responding to concerns abroad that, after months of political deadlock linked to a corruption scandal, conditions were not yet in place for a free and fair vote.
South Africa’s Zuma withdraws troops from Sudan’s Darfur region
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will withdraw its troops from peacekeeping operations in Sudan’s Darfur region, President Jacob Zuma’s office said on Wednesday.
Philippines still seeks $1 billion in Marcos wealth 30 years after his ouster
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is still seeking to recover about $1 billion worth of assets accumulated by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos through 100 court cases at home and overseas, a government official said on Wednesday.
Gunmen kill three Mali soldiers in attack on checkpoint
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a checkpoint southwest of the Malian town of Timbuktu overnight killing three soldiers and wounding two others, a soldier in the town said on Wednesday.
China says media ignores other claimants’ weaponry in South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday complained the media were ignoring radars and weapons deployed by other claimants in the South China Sea, and unfairly targeting China, following reports of its deployment of fighter jets and radars in the dispute…
Hong Kong braces for weaker growth as “political volatility” strains economy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong rolled out a multi-billion dollar package of sweeteners to bolster its economy on Wednesday, as a slowdown in China and rising political tensions deepen its economic woes.
Nepal plane crash kills all 23 aboard, police say
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A small plane crashed in Nepal on Wednesday in bad weather, killing all 23 people on board, a police official said, the country’s second air disaster in as many years.
Ousted Thai PM Thaksin’s influence shows signs of waning
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Sitting in her busy Bangkok noodle shop, Bunruen Klinnak professes “love” for Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in a 2006 military coup and later fled abroad.
‘In’ camp leads ahead of Britain’s EU referendum, but gap narrows: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – The “in” camp is ahead by a 12-point lead ahead of a referendum on whether Britain should stay in or withdraw from the European Union, but the gap has narrowed, according to the latest opinion poll.
Rescued Swedish girl says life under Islamic State ‘really hard’
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – A Swedish teenager rescued from Islamic State militants in Iraq has said life in the so-called caliphate was “really hard” and that she was duped into going there by her boyfriend.
