Danish PM’s Liberal Party loses support in poll
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Support for Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s ruling Liberal Party has fallen to 16.6 percent from 19.5 percent at the June election, Borsen newspaper reported on Wednesday.
In a first, Chinese gay man sues for right to marry
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court has accepted China’s first same-sex marriage case, lodged by a gay man against a civil affairs bureau for denying him the right to marry, in a decision hailed as a step forward for gay rights.
Malaysia Airlines resumes checked baggage on Europe routes
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines resumed normal check-in baggage allowances on all its flights on Wednesday after banning it temporarily due to strong head winds on the longer routes it was taking for safety reasons.
Indonesia prepares rural flood defenses to protect crops
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is bolstering its rural flood defenses to help farmers protect crops from monsoon waters and the La Nina weather pattern, its agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
China to allow mainlanders to make transit stops in Taiwan
(Reuters) – China’s move to allow transit stops in Taiwan for onward flights for the first time is a sign Beijing is trying to interfere with Taiwan’s upcoming presidential elections, the opposition party favored to win the polls said on Wednesday.
North Korea says tested hydrogen nuclear device
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday morning.
Bomb blast hits Afghan capital Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – A magnetic bomb attached to a car exploded in Kabul on Tuesday, in the latest of a series of attacks in the Afghan capital, police officials said.
North Korea ‘likely’ to have conducted nuclear test: South
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is “likely” to have conducted a nuclear test on Wednesday that caused an earthquake near a known testing site in the isolated country, the South Korean and Japanese governments said.
North Korea appears to have tested sub-launched missile: South Korean media
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea appears to have carried out a test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile last month, South Korean media reports said, but the South Korean military told Reuters it could not confirm the test.
Venezuela opposition takes control of Congress in rowdy session
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition took control of Congress for the first time in 16 years on Tuesday in a rowdy session, setting up a power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro amid a worsening economic crisis.
