Japan, South Korea hold talks amid ‘comfort women’ feud
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with his South Korean counterpart on Sunday in a bid to mend ties strained by a territorial dispute and a feud over “comfort women” forced to work in Japan’s wartime military brothels…
Modi seeks to turn yoga record on its head as India stretches soft power
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in a yoga session in the center of the capital on Sunday to showcase the country’s signature cultural export, which has prompted criticism of fomenting social div…
Kenya wages war on smugglers who fund Somali militants
DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Keny…
Four militants killed in raid on Somali government site, attack over
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Four Islamist gunmen were killed after detonating a car bomb and shooting their way into a national intelligence agency training site, the internal security ministry said, adding that the government did not suffer any casualties d…
Britain wins EU games and sets but match never ends
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain has a long history of short-lived negotiating triumphs in Europe.
South Korea reports three new MERS cases, Thailand says none
SEOUL/BANGKOK (Reuters) – South Korea reported three new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome on Sunday, bringing the total to 169 in the largest outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, but Thailand said it had no new infections.
Moonshine kills at least 94 in India city slum
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Toxic homemade liquor has killed at least 94 slum dwellers in India’s financial capital Mumbai, with more than 45 in hospital, police said on Sunday, in the latest disaster involving moonshine.
Bomb kills nine Afghan children, 10 adults; key district falls in north
KABUL (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed at least 19 Afghan civilians including nine children in a southern province, while Taliban fighters in the north captured a key district on the frontline of the battle for Kunduz city, officials said on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia warns citizens against sharing ‘faked’ documents after Wikileaks release
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in an apparent response to WikiLeaks’ publication on Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communication…
Rising unemployment piles up problems for Indonesian president
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian companies are shedding jobs as they grapple with the weakest economic growth in six years, adding to the troubles facing President Joko Widodo, who was elected last year on pledges to dig the country out of a rut.
