Pakistan says militants firing from Afghanistan kill seven soldiers
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Islamist militants firing from Afghanistan into Pakistan killed seven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday, officials said, in an attack likely to put more strain on tense relations between the neighbors.
Philippines says has ‘no capacity’ to resettle asylum seekers
MANILA (Reuters) – President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday said the Philippines had “no capacity” to permanently relocate asylum seekers now being held in Australian detention camps on remote, impoverished South Pacific islands.
Malaysia’s human rights have been eroded under PM Najib: group
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Human rights in Malaysia have deteriorated under Prime Minister Najib Razak’s administration despite his promises to provide more freedom, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
In Britain’s pubs, Brexit debate is well underway
LOWESTOFT, England (Reuters) – Tempers flared and insults flew, but after more than an hour of opposing ‘facts’, a few scare stories and the odd saucy joke, the vote was in – 82 percent of people were in favor of Britain quitting the European Union.
China army says West trying to ‘falsify’ Communist Party history
BEIJING (Reuters) – Enemy forces in the West are trying to “falsify” the history of China’s ruling Communist Party and its military and force a “color revolution” on troops who are too susceptible to outside influences, the military’s official newspape…
Ahead of summit, China urges Japan make break from ‘inglorious’ past
BEIJING (Reuters) – Japan needs to make a clean break from its “inglorious” past and take on an entirely new outlook if it wants to have stable and healthy relations with China and South Korea, China’s foreign minister said on Tuesday ahead of a weeken…
Indonesia’s mudflow disaster site gets makeover as tourist spot
SIDOARJO, Indonesia (Reuters) – Plodding around a vast field of mud that sits on top of a dozen submerged villages, tourists snap photographs of a volcano that is still spewing sludge nearly a decade after it erupted in one of the strangest disasters o…
Indonesia’s president cuts short U.S. trip due to haze crisis
JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo will return early from an official trip to the United States due to a haze crisis caused by raging peat fires in the Southeast Asian country, the government said.
Cuba’s interior minister resigns due to health, government says
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban Interior Minister Abelardo Colome, a career military man who helped bring the Interior Ministry closer to the armed forces following a purge in 1989, resigned due to failing health, Cuba said on Monday.
President says Indonesia intends to join TPP trade deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo, speaking after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday, said his Southeast Asian country intends to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the United States has forged with 11…
