China won’t say if Xi met North Korea official during parade
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry declined to say on Monday whether President Xi Jinping had held talks with a senior North Korean official visiting for a military parade last week, underscoring the parlous relations between the two supposed…
Pakistan deploys first homemade drone, kills three militants
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A missile-firing Pakistani drone has killed at least three suspected militants in the first ever reported use of the indigenously developed aircraft in combat, the military said on Monday.
Indonesia migrant boat death toll rises to 61
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Sixty-one bodies have been recovered from an overloaded wooden boat which sank off Malaysia carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants, maritime officials said on Monday.
Mother of killed West Bank toddler dies of wounds
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The mother of a Palestinian toddler killed in a July arson attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank died on Monday of her burns, the third fatality after her husband succumbed to his injuries last month.
Lebanon’s rubbish crisis exposes political rot
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The overpowering stench of the rubbish piling up in Lebanon’s streets has become a potent symbol of the political rot protesters blame not only for the garbage crisis but a gridlocked sectarian power system unable to meet citizens’ most basic needs, from electricity to water, health to education.
Failure of Syria diplomacy exposes enduring divisions over Assad
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country’s war was dominating news bulletins this summer, yet another diplomatic push to end the four-year-old conflict was quietly running into the sand.
Japan’s Abe unlikely to tackle hard reforms in next term: economists
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks set to win a rare second consecutive term but economists predict he won’t use that victory to push through bold reforms such as labor market changes that are considered vital for long-term grow…
No clear winner projected in Trinidad election
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Voters go to the polls in general elections in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday as the ruling party and the opposition face a too-close-to-call race for control of the Caribbean country’s 41-seat parliament.
China again warns against dark side of the mooncakes
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese media are not allowed to carry advertising which uses “extravagant wording” to promote gifts over upcoming holidays, the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said, as the mooncake season approaches.
Austria to revoke measures that let migrants cross from Hungary
VIENNA/MUNICH (Reuters) – Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning.
