Myanmar cancels by-elections
YANGON September 7 (Reuters) – Myanmar has called off an election scheduled for the end of this year to fill 35 vacated seats in parliament, the Union Election Commission announced on Sunday.
With sedition dragnet, Malaysia takes step back to Mahathir era
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities are carrying out the broadest crackdown on the political opposition and social activists since the era of strongman leader Mahathir Mohamad, as traditionalists in the long-ruling ethnic Malay party appear …
Police violence, abiding grief for China families of missing on Malaysia jet
BEIJING (Reuters) – Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, relatives of those lost, desperate for any hint of what happened, say Chinese authorities have become openly hostile toward them.
Somalia’s al Shabaab name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. air strike this week and named a new leader, promising “great distress” to its enemies.
Former French hostage says Brussels attack suspect was among his captors in Syria
PARIS (Reuters) – A French journalist held hostage for months in Syria said on Saturday that one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May.
Artillery attack challenges ceasefire in east Ukraine
KIEV/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces came under artillery fire late on Saturday near the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first serious violation of a ceasefire declared only about 30 hours earlier.
Libya says Sudanese war plane loaded with ammunition for Tripoli enters its airspace
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libya said a Sudanese military transport plane bound for a Tripoli airport under control of an armed group had entered its airspace, a government statement said on Saturday.
Strategy against Islamic State in hand, Obama now must make it work
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It took President Barack Obama and his top aides a week to explain that he does in fact have a strategy for confronting the Islamic State militancy. Now he has to prove that he can make it work.
Supporters of Scottish independence take narrow poll lead for first time
LONDON (Reuters) – Supporters of Scottish independence have taken their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began, according to a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times newspaper.
Somalia’s al Shabaab name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. air strike this week and named a new leader, promising “great distress” to its enemies.
