France sending experts to investigate Saudi oil attack: Elysee
France will send experts to Saudi Arabia to help with investigations into an attack on Saudi oil installations, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said on Wednesday.
Israel’s Netanyahu teetering in close election race
Israel’s election remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with television stations carrying unofficial results showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tied with his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz.
South Korea politicians in close-shave protest over law minister
The deputy speaker of South Korea’s parliament joined a growing band of politicians on Wednesday who have shaved their heads in a protest against a new justice minister whose family is being investigated for suspected wrongdoing.
Saudi Arabia joins maritime protection mission: state news agency
Saudi Arabia has joined an international maritime mission to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and other areas, Saudi state media reported on Wednesday, citing an official source in the defense ministry.
Mexican authorities find 29 bodies in a hundred plastic bags
Mexican authorities said on Tuesday they had found 29 bodies, packed in more than a hundred plastic bags, dumped in a clandestine grave in the violent western state of Jalisco.
Israel’s Netanyahu teetering in close election race: polls
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in a battle for political survival after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed the race too close to call and the Israeli leader’s decade-long grip on power slipping.
Preferably dead: Philippines’ Duterte seeks freed inmates’ capture
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has renewed an offer of big bounties for hundreds of convicted murderers and rapists set free in a corrections bureau blunder, and said he would be happier if they were caught dead rather than alive.
Mexico seeks to halt ‘illegal’ auction of pre-Columbian art in Paris
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged French elite auction house Millon to halt what it called an “illegal” auction of 120 pieces of pre-Columbian artifacts at an event scheduled for Wednesday in Paris.
Japan says South Korea move on fast-track trade status ‘regrettable’
Japan on Wednesday said South Korea’s decision to remove Tokyo’s fast-track trade status without sufficient explanation was “regrettable”, as a diplomatic and trade row between the two Asian neighbors and U.S. allies deepened.
Brazil prosecutor orders indictments in Rio councilwoman murder case
Brazil’s top public prosecutor on Tuesday ordered five people indicted over sabotaging efforts to investigate the assassination of a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, and said federal investigators would take over the case.
