Indonesia’s president-elect Widodo looks to technocrats for cabinet
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s president-elect Joko Widodo said on Monday just over half of the members of his cabinet will be technocrats, including the ministers of finance, energy and state-owned enterprises.
Thai king discharged after more than month in hospital
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, was discharged on Monday in what the palace said was a healthy condition after nearly five weeks of treatment at a Bangkok hospital for stomach inflammation.
Leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah freed on bail
CAIRO (Reuters) – One of Egypt’s most prominent activists, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was released on bail on Monday ahead of his re-trial on charges of violating a protest law, triggering celebrations by dozens of supporters in the court room.
South Korea finds wreckage in sea of suspected North Korean drone
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s military has recovered the wreckage of unmanned aircraft, believed to be a North Korean drone, in waters off an island near a disputed maritime border, an official said on Monday.
Iran’s leader leaves hospital after operation, in good health: state TV
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 75, left hospital on Monday a week after undergoing prostate surgery, state television reported. Official media said he was in good health.
Syria’s ‘moderate’ rebels say they need weapons, not training
JEDDAH Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – As President Barack Obama knits together an international coalition to take its campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria, fighters like Ammar al-Wawi could make the difference.
An unlikely hero, Gordon Brown wrestles with Scotland’s fate
GLASGOW Scotland (Reuters) – Once mocked for claiming to have saved the world after the 2008 financial crisis, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown may now have the fate of Scotland in his hands.
New Zealand dismisses Snowden’s claim it planned mass domestic spying
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand was preparing to conduct mass domestic surveillance last year, a U.S. investigative journalist said on Monday, five days before the country goes to the polls, provoking immediate denials from Prime Minister John Key.
New Zealand dismisses Snowden’s claim it planned mass domestic spying
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand was preparing to conduct mass domestic surveillance last year, a U.S. investigative journalist said on Monday, five days before the country goes to the polls, provoking immediate denials from Prime Minister John Key.
U.S. sees Middle East help fighting IS, Britain cautious after beheading
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Washington said countries in the Middle East had offered to join air strikes against Islamic State militants and Australia said it would send troops, but Britain held back even after the group beheaded a British hostage an…
