Desperate migrant pays for baby to be drugged, smuggled to Myanmar: researchers
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Burmese woman working in Thailand hired a man to sedate and smuggle her 3-month-old baby across the border to relatives in Myanmar, researchers said, describing a common “service” for desperate migrant mothers f…
Erdogan’s war on critical media heats up ahead of Turkish election
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A veteran U.S. journalist and author said on Wednesday President Tayyip Erdogan had blocked his honorary citizenship and declared him an enemy of the state, as the Turkish leader’s war on critical media intensifies ahead of a June …
Syria says wants more Iraqi coordination in Islamic State fight
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Damascus wants more coordination with Baghdad to combat Islamic State fighters who control land in both countries, Syria’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, days after the group seized a border crossing and overran a central Syrian…
EU judges jail 11 ex-Kosovo Albanian guerrillas for war crimes
PRISTINA (Reuters) – European Union judges in Kosovo sentenced 11 former Kosovo Albanian guerrillas, two of them close to ex-prime minister Hashim Thaci, to prison terms on Wednesday for war crimes committed during Kosovo’s 1998-99 pro-independence upr…
U.S., South Korea, Japan seek to raise pressure on North’s nuclear program
SEOUL (Reuters) – The United States and two key Asian allies discussed how to increase pressure on North Korea to halt its nuclear program and will urge China to help bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table, officials said.
Ethiopia’s ruling party sweeps parliament: early election results
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s ruling party and its allies won a large majority in parliament, the country’s election board said on Wednesday, based on an early vote count in a weekend election in which opponents complained their supporters were ha…
Woman accused of witchcraft axed to death in PNG: missionary
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in Papua New Guinea vowed to find the men who axed to death a woman accused of using witchcraft to spark a measles outbreak in the country’s remote jungle highlands, a missionary said on Wednesday after mee…
Pakistan seeks FBI help to investigate firm accused of faking diplomas
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has asked U.S. authorities to help it investigate Axact, a software firm accused of earning millions of dollars from the international sale of bogus university degrees online, officials said on Wednesday.
Malaysia detains 12 police in people-smuggling camps probe
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Twelve Malaysian police officials have been held on suspicion of links to people-smuggling camps where authorities have uncovered nearly 140 graves believed to hold the bodies of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, a governme…
Germany lobbies India to buy Eurofighters, submarines
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Germany’s defense minister held out the prospect of more talks on a possible sale of Eurofighter jets to India and, on a visit to New Delhi, said Berlin stood ready to back a multi-billion-dollar Indian submarine project.
