Slovenian interim PM Bratusek forms new party before snap election in July
LJUBLA (Reuters) – Slovenia’s Interim Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek, who helped save the country from an international bailout last year, announced the formation of a new center-left party on Saturday before a snap parliamentary elections in July.
China indicts eight in Beijing attack, pushes new policies
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Prosecutors in far western China have indicted eight people over an attack on the edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square last October in which a car ploughed into a crowd and caught fire, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Sa…
Thai forces out to stifle unrest after army chief sets election plan
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police and soldiers flooded downtown Bangkok on Saturday to pre-empt further protests against a May 22 coup after the army chief said a return to democracy would take more than a year.
Australian airlines ground flights due to Indonesia volcano ash cloud
PERTH (Reuters) – Some flights between Australia and southeast Asia and all domestic flights operating out of Darwin airport in the country’s north were canceled on Saturday after the eruption of Sangeang Api in Indonesia’s south produced a large cloud of ash.
UAE says Sisi represents ‘new hope’ for Egypt
DOHA (Reuters) – A UAE minister said the election of former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Egypt’s president represented “new hope” for the most populous Arab country.
New Indian government fights power cuts in Delhi, biggest state
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s new energy minister pulled an all-night work session to tackle power cuts caused by a dust storm in New Delhi on Friday and provide more electricity to the country’s largest state that is suffering outages in sweltering su…
Thai oil tanker may have been hijacked: authorities
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Thai diesel oil tanker with 14 crew members en route from Singapore to Indonesia is believed to have been hijacked, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on Saturday, the second major case in months on one of the world…
Chinese national freed after two months in captivity
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Two women, including a Chinese national, who were kidnapped on the Malaysian island of Borneo in early April have been freed with no ransom demanded by the abductors, Malaysian media reported.
Xi says China won’t stir trouble in South China Sea
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed not to stir up trouble in the South China Sea but said China would react “in the necessary way” to provocations by other countries, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
State Department says U.S. citizen was suicide bomber in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Friday confirmed that an American citizen had carried out a suicide bombing in Syria. “The American citizen involved in the suicide bombing in Syria is believed to be Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha,” State …
