Thai junta security forces stay in barracks as protests dwindle
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s junta kept many of the thousands of troops and police it readied to deal with protests in Bangkok on Sunday off the streets as the number of people making a public show of dissent to the May 22 coup dwindled.
Far-right Austrian leader Strache to run for Vienna mayor: paper
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache wants to become mayor of Vienna in elections next year, he told a Sunday newspaper in an interview laden with anti-Turkish venom.
Philippine, Vietnamese troops drink beer, play volleyball on disputed isle
MANILA/HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese and Philippine troops got together on a disputed island in the South China Sea on Sunday to play soccer and volleyball – as well as drink beer – in a display of unity that will not go unnoticed in Beijing.
Lebanon’s air traffic controllers to stop work on June 10
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air traffic controllers at Beirut airport are to hold a two-hour strike on Tuesday in protest at the Lebanese parliament’s failure to approve long-delayed public sector pay increases.
Afghanistan tightens election security after Abdullah attack
KABUL (Reuters) – Security is being ramped up so the two candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election run-off next week can continue campaigning after an attack on one of them killed 12 people, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday.
Politics poses biggest risk to euro zone endurance
PARIS (Reuters) – With the euro zone bond market back to irrational exuberance and economic growth returning slowly if unevenly, politics rather than economics now poses the biggest threat to the long-term endurance of Europe’s single currency.
Baghdad car bombs kill 60; militants storm Ramadi university
BAGHDAD/RAMADI Iraq (Reuters) – A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said.
Colombia’s FARC declare poll ceasefire, take a swipe at Zuluaga
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels declared a ceasefire on Saturday for a three-week period covering a tight presidential election race on June 15, campaigning for which has centered on how to end five decades of war with the guerrilla g…
Colombia’s FARC declares cease-fire for election period: local radio
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels have declared a cease-fire from June 9 to 30, covering the period of the presidential elections, local media network Caracol reported on Saturday.
Kosovo’s Thaci bids for third term, voters angry over poverty, graft
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Former guerrilla Hashim Thaci bids for a third term as prime minister of Kosovo on Sunday, under pressure from voters angry over poverty and corruption and a war crimes investigation that threatens to ensnare his former comrades-in…
