New Zealand bar manager pleads not guilty to insulting Buddhism in Myanmar
YANGON (Reuters) – A New Zealand bar manager on Friday pleaded not guilty in a Myanmar court to charges of insulting religion after publishing a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones to promote his bar in Yangon.
India seeks help from Bhutan, Myanmar to hunt down militants
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – India has sought cooperation from Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh in an offensive against a tribal militant group that had shot dead at least 80 people in Assam state this week, officials said on Friday.
Sony’s ‘Interview’ draws U.S. moviegoers who trumpet free speech
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “The Interview,” the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell-out audi…
Two U.S. drone strikes kill seven militants in Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at militant hideouts in northwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least seven fighters, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
China police fire on Tibetans after self-immolations: rights group
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have fired on Tibetan protesters demonstrating after a series of deadly self-immolations by people from Tibet campaigning against Chinese rule of their Himalayan region, a rights group said on Friday.
Russia says Kiev’s move to join NATO dangerous for Europe
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine’s pursuit of NATO membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev’s bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation between Russia a…
Senior Chinese leader says Vietnam ties need ‘correct path’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants relations with Vietnam to proceed along a “correct path”, a visiting senior Chinese leader said, vowing to improve mutual trust, amid tension between the neighbors over competing claims in the South China Sea.
Prosecutors won’t indict former Tepco executives over Fukushima disaster: media
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese prosecutors will likely decide again not to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power Co executives over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, media reported on Friday, but a rarely used citizen’s panel could …
Record numbers evacuated in Malaysia’s worst floods in decades
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authorities in five northern states of Malaysia hit by the Southeast Asian’ nation’s worst monsoon floods in decades.
Veteran politician Evans Paul nominated for prime minister of Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Former Port-au-Prince mayor and veteran politician Evans Paul was nominated as prime minister by President Michel Martelly on Thursday in the latest attempt to resolve a political crisis over long-delayed elections in Haiti.
