Huge Thai security force deployment stifles coup protests
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s military government sent thousands of troops and police into central Bangkok on Sunday, stifling any mass dissent against the army’s coup on May 22 and limiting protesters to small gatherings held mostly around shopping m…
Nearly 800 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest month this year: U.N.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nearly 800 people were killed in violence across Iraq in May, the United Nations said on Sunday, making it the deadliest month so far this year.
NATO to discuss reinforcing troops in Poland-German defense ministry
BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO defense ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing their forces in Poland when they meet in Brussels this week, a spokesman for the German defense ministry said on Sunday.
Once on the edge of defeat, Syria’s Assad runs again for president
BEIRUT (Reuters) – It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad’s enemies thought he was finished.
France’s Le Pen says she admires Putin as much as Merkel – magazine
BERLIN (Reuters) – Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front, said she admired Vladimir Putin as much as German Chancellor Angela Merkel because the Russian president did not allow other countries to impose decisions on him.
UKIP’s Farage hopes for deal with Italy’s 5-star leader Grillo
LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP) said on Sunday he hoped to form an alliance with Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement in the European Parliament.
Sixteen missing in Russian helicopter crash
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Sixteen people, including the head of Apatit, a fertiliser supplier, were missing and two survived with injuries after an Mi-8 helicopter crashed into a lake in Russia’s northwest Murmansk region, the Emergencies Ministry said on Sun…
Italy PM says Juncker not the only candidate for EU Commission
TRENTO Italy (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said a political discussion was needed to decide who would be the next president of the European Commission and that Jean-Claude Juncker was not the only candidate.
Bangladesh, Myanmar at odds over deadly border clash
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh has lodged a protest with Myanmar over what it called an unprovoked attack against its border guards by Myanmar security forces on May 30, following an earlier exchange of fire in which one Bangladeshi guard was killed.
Iran executes man for links to exiled opposition group: Fars
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran executed a man on Sunday for links with the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an exiled Iranian opposition group, the semi-official Fars news agency said.
