Police shut Istanbul park to pre-empt protests one year after unrest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police on Saturday shut Gezi Park, the Istanbul square at the center of mass demonstrations in 2013, to prevent any efforts to mark the anniversary of the biggest anti-government protests in decades.
UK’s anti-EU voters to stick with UKIP party in national election: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly nine in 10 of the over four million Britons who backed the anti-EU UKIP party in this month’s European elections will vote for them again in national polls next year, potentially costing Prime Minister David Cameron vital vote…
Four Afghans killed in Pakistani border strike, say Afghan officials
ASADABAD Afghanistan (Reuters) – An airstrike by Pakistani forces along the Afghan border killed four civilians on Saturday, officials said, as a Pakistani offensive against Taliban militants continued despite protests by the Afghan government.
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…
