Special Report: Inside Thailand’s trafficking crackdown
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia.
Australia extradites former Serb commander for trial in Croatia
ZAGREB (Reuters) – A former Serb commander accused of war crimes in Croatia in the 1990s arrived in Zagreb on Thursday to face trial, after losing a nine-year battle to block his extradition from Australia, Croatian state radio reported.
Turkish PM expects start of coalition talks next week
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he expected to receive a mandate on Thursday to form a new government and to start coalition talks next week, more than a month after an election deprived his AK Party of a parliamentary ma…
Frustration grows among Nepal quake survivors as monsoon swamps camps
GAJURKOT, Nepal (Reuters) – Weeks after annual monsoon rains started to lash Nepal, Kanchhi Maya Sherpa sits inside a makeshift tent on a soggy soccer pitch, flies crawling over her swollen mouth and limbs.
Malaysia govt audit finds nothing suspicious in 1MDB probe: report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – An interim report by the Malaysian government into debt-laden state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has found nothing suspicious after vetting its accounts, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday.
Thailand sends nearly 100 Uighur migrants back to China
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand confirmed on Thursday it had forcibly returned nearly 100 Uighur migrants to China, heightening tensions between Ankara and Beijing over the treatment of the Turkic language-speaking and largely Muslim minority.
Indonesian Islamic minority protests mosque closure, fears growing intolerance
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Members of an Indonesian minority Islamic sect protested on Thursday against the forced closure of one of their mosques amid concerns over rising religious intolerance in a country which is home to world’s largest Muslim population….
China angrily rebuffs U.N. criticism of new security law
BEIJING (Reuters) – China accused the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights of being unprofessional and making baseless criticisms on Thursday after he said a new national security law was too vague and potentially harmful to civil liberties.
Pope lauds Bolivia’s social reforms as relations thaw
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday praised Bolivia’s social reforms to spread wealth under leftist President Evo Morales and urged the world not to view prosperity as material wealth, which he warned only breeds corruption and confli…
Ugandan police arrest presidential aspirants on way to meetings
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan police arrested on Thursday a former prime minister who wants to challenge to President Yoweri Museveni for the ruling party’s candidacy ahead of 2016 elections, while he was on his way to meet supporters at a town near Keny…
