Kenya announces plans to reopen Nairobi mall after attack
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s Westgate mall, the scene of a four-day siege in late 2013 that left dozens dead, will reopen to the public in July for the first time since the attack, officials said on Monday.
Germany to invest in French military satellite program: document
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany wants to invest 210 million euros ($228 million) in France’s new military Earth observation satellite program in return for more access to images captured by the satellites, according to an internal parliamentary document see…
Veteran Uzbek leader re-elected in vote OSCE brands undemocratic
ALMATY (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s veteran leader Islam Karimov easily won another five years at the helm of Central Asia’s most populous nation in an election that Europe’s main security body criticized for lacking genuine opposition.
HK activists use newspaper petition to warn of academic threats
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Activists published a full-page petition in a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong on Monday, warning of growing threats to academic freedom and the educational system amid fears of a broader Chinese clampdown on the former Bri…
War crimes court revokes Serb nationalist Seselj’s compassionate release
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – United Nations judges summoned Serbian politician Vojislav Seselj back to The Hague on Monday, ruling that the nationalist, who has terminal cancer, must return to answer allegations that he violated the terms of his compassionate…
Syria gets Russian arms under deals signed since conflict began: Assad
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is supplying weapons to Damascus under contracts signed since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, as well as under earlier deals, President Bashar al-Assad said.
Ex-Israeli PM Olmert convicted in another corruption case
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already facing a six-year prison term after a corruption conviction, was found guilty on Monday in a separate case of accepting illegal payments from a U.S. businessman.
China probes senior power official for graft: provincial regulator
BEIJING (Reuters) – A top executive of state-run China Southern Power Grid is under investigation for “serious disciplinary violations”, the graft watchdog of Guangdong province said on Monday.
Second blogger hacked to death this year in Bangladesh
DHAKA (Reuters) – A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.
Special Report: Inside Hungary’s $10.8 billion nuclear deal with Russia
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Its currency is wounded and its economy besieged by sanctions, yet Russia still has money to spare for potential allies overseas. Even as it scrabbles for foreign funds, Moscow is poised to make a 10 billion euro ($10.8 billion) lo…
