Maldives allows jailed former leader to travel to UK for surgery
COLOMBO (Reuters) – The Maldives on Saturday granted permission for jailed former leader Mohamed Nasheed to travel to Britain for surgery after pressure from the international community including human rights groups and his lawyer Amal Clooney.
Zuma’s office admits Africa isn’t biggest continent
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s presidency issued an embarrassing correction on Monday to rectify an erroneous reference last month by President Jacob Zuma to Africa being the “largest continent”.
British rights activist faces defamation trial in Thailand
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A Thai court on Monday charged a British human rights activist with defaming a Thai fruit company, a case which could see him jailed for up to seven years if found guilty.
One killed as rocket hits Turkish school near Syrian border
ANKARA (Reuters) – A female school employee was killed and a female student wounded on Monday when a rocket believed to have been fired from Syria struck a school in southeastern Turkey, the local governor’s office said.
End of Europe? Berlin, Brussels’ shock tactic on migrants
The Germans, founders and funders of the postwar union, shut their borders to refugees in a bid for political survival by the chancellor who let in a million migrants. And then — why not? — they decide to revive the Deutschmark while they’re at it.
Greek president accuses Turkish port officials of helping people smugglers
BERLIN (Reuters) – Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said Turkey was not doing enough to reduce the number of migrants arriving in Europe and accused Turkish port officials of helping people smugglers.
Five starve, dozens more at risk, in Syria’s besieged Madaya: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Five people have starved to death in the last week in the Syrian town of Madaya, where a single biscuit sells for $15 and baby milk costs $313 per kilo, despite two emergency United Nations aid deliveries to the besieged town, a UN r…
Five Bangladesh militants jailed for 10 years for bombings
DHAKA (Reuters) – A court in Bangladesh on Monday jailed five militants of a banned Islamist group for 10 years over bombings in 2005 that formed part of a series of blasts across the Muslim-majority nation.
Pakistan 1999 coup leader Musharraf acquitted of murder, but other cases remain
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup against current Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was acquitted on Monday of the murder of a separatist leader in 2006, removing one of several cases agai…
Philippines plans tracking system for civilian flights over disputed sea
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines plans to install a $1-million satellite-based system to track commercial flights over the disputed South China Sea, after China landed its first test flights this month on a reef it built in the Spratly islands.
