Suu Kyi’s opposition party takes majority in Myanmar’s parliament
YANGON (Reuters) – The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar’s parliament, the election commission said on Friday, giving it enough seats to elect the new president.
Bomb kills four in Thailand’s south: police
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A bomb blast at a village checkpoint in Thailand’s deep south killed four people and wounded four others, police said on Friday, in the latest deadly attack to strike the insurgency-plagued region.
U.N. wants clarification of report UAE broke Libya arms embargo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The outgoing United Nations envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon of Spain, on Thursday said he would seek a “full clarification” of a newspaper report that the United Arab Emirates was shipping arms to Libyan factions in violation…
Brazil levies initial fines of $66 million against mine for burst dams
MARIANA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil’s president slapped preliminary fines of 250 million reais ($66.2 million) against a mine in the country’s southeast where two dams burst, killing nine people and coating a two-state area with mud and mine waste.
BHP Billiton says Brazil dam death toll has risen to 9
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The death toll from the iron ore mine dam disaster in Brazil has risen to nine, while 19 people remain missing, BHP Billiton, a co-owner of the mine said on Friday.
Two suicide bombers hit Hezbollah bastion in Lebanon, 43 killed
BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded on Thursday in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State in a crowded residential district in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Shi’ite Muslim group Hezboll…
U.S. agencies say not invited to join Egypt probe into Russian plane crash
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Neither the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) nor the FBI have been invited to join the Egyptian-led investigation into the crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula late last month, officials at the two U…
Kurds expect to enter and clear Sinjar soon
NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish forces who have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from Islamic State militants expect to enter and clear the northern Iraqi town soon, the Kurdistan regional security council said on Thursday.
Central African government reassures Vatican over pope visit
BANGUI (Reuters) – Political and religious leaders in Central African Republic on Thursday sought to assure the Vatican that the pope would be safe when he visited on Nov. 28-29 as the United Nations also prepared to add troops.
U.S. bombers flew near China-built island in South China Sea: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. B52 strategic bombers flew near artificial Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea this week and were contacted by Chinese ground controllers but continued their mission undeterred, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
