Separatist yearning of Hong Kong youth spurs mainland bridge-building
HONG KONG (Reuters) – On a recent Sunday night in the working class Hong Kong district of Mong Kok, a group of young, radical activists swore through loud-hailers and gestured rudely as they denounced mainland Chinese as “prostitutes” and “barbarians”….
Iran’s conservatives take aim at nuclear deal
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s security hawks have begun sniping at their country’s historic nuclear deal, emboldened a day after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described some of the world powers that signed it as “untrustworthy”.
Japan military chief says South China Sea surveillance possible
Washington (Reuters) – Japan’s top military commander, Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, said on Thursday he expected China to become increasingly assertive in the South China Sea and it was possible Japan would conduct patrols and surveillance activities the…
Europe moves to restore funding to Greece after bailout vote
ATHENS (Reuters) – Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece’s stricken economy on Thursday after the parliament in Athens approved a new bailout program in a fractious vote that left the government without a majority.
Cuba says not convinced U.S. has given up ‘regime change’ policy
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba remains unconvinced the United States has stopped trying to remove the Communist Party from power despite a public pledge from President Barack Obama disowning “regime change,” a Cuban foreign ministry official said on Thursday….
Bombs kill around 50 at market in northeast Nigeria: officials
ABUJA (Reuters) – Two bombings by suspected Boko Haram militants killed an estimated 50 people at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Thursday, officials from two disaster agencies said.
Britain calls for international tribunal in downing of MH17 victims
LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Friday backed calls for an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of shooting a Malaysian airline out of the sky over rebel-held eastern Ukraine a year ago.
Nigeria’s Buhari dissolves governing bodies of some federal agencies
ABUJA (Reuters) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dissolution of the governing boards of a number of federal agencies and institutions with immediate effect, his spokesman said on Thursday.
Car explodes near high-security Saudi prison, driver killed: ministry
RIYADH (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near Saudi Arabia’s highest security prison at sunset on Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials, the interior ministry said.
Eleven sentenced in UK for sex trafficking
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eleven people were sentenced on Thursday for trafficking sex workers from Hungary to Britain, in what the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said was one of the largest sex trafficking cases prosecuted in London.
