Malaysia’s top lawyer rejected advice to charge PM: source
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s anti-graft agency had recommended that Prime Minister Najib Razak be charged with criminal misappropriation, a source said, amid growing outrage after the premier was cleared of any offences in a multi-million-dollar…
Medevac helicopter crash kills five in Kazakhstan
ALMATY (Reuters) – A helicopter has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing all five aboard, including an infant being taken to a hospital, news website Tengrinews.kz reported on Thursday.
North Korea may be readying long-range missile launch soon: Kyodo
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range missile as soon as within a week, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported early on Thursday, citing an unnamed Japanese government official.
U.N. says Syria ignored most of its requests to deliver aid
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Syrian government in 2015 ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of the 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas and only 620,000 received help, the U.N. aid chief said on W…
Curfew widened in southeast Turkey, clashes kill 23
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey while three Turkish soldiers died in a rebel attack, the military said on Wednesday, as authorities widened a curfew in the mainly Kurdish region’s largest c…
Montenegrin PM survives confidence vote, but partner deserts
PODGORICA (Reuters) – Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic survived a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday in the wake of an invitation to join NATO, but had to rely on the votes of an opposition party after his own coalition partner abando…
Peru may bar presidential candidate if plagiarism found
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s electoral committee said on Wednesday that it might bar a leading candidate from the presidential race if a university in Spain finds that plagiarism allegations against him are true.
Saudi strikes on Yemen civilians may be crimes against humanity: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A Saudi-led coalition fighting in neighboring Yemen has targeted civilians with air strikes and some of the attacks could be a crimes against humanity, United Nations sanctions monitors said in an annual report to the Securit…
Syrian opposition demands answers before joining talks
BEIRUT/GENEVA/PARIS (Reuters) – Plans to hold the first negotiations to end the civil war in Syria for two years were in doubt on Wednesday after the opposition said it would not show up unless the United Nations responded to demands for a halt to atta…
Workers evacuated at Brazil’s Samarco mine after new mudslide
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Samarco Mineracao SA [SAMNE.UL] said on Wednesday it evacuated some workers after rain caused a mudslide at the site where an iron ore tailings damn burst in November, killing at least 17 people and leaving ab…
