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…
Five Britons killed when Canadian whale-watch boat sinks
TOFINO, British Columbia (Reuters) – Five Britons were killed when a Canadian whale-watching boat sank on Sunday, and authorities were still searching on Monday for a sixth person feared drowned in the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast o…
Biden offers to work with Guatemala’s Morales to fight corruption -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Guatemalan President-elect Jimmy Morales on Monday, a former TV comedian who was swept to power in a Sunday election centered on the issue of government corruption.
Twelve dead in ELN rebel attack on Colombian troops
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s second-largest rebel group, the ELN, killed 12 members of the security forces in the central province of Boyaca on Monday, the government said, as the troops transported votes from the country’s regional elections.
