UK forced to accelerate planned reform to gambling regulations
The British government bowed to increasing pressure from lawmakers on Wednesday by bringing forward a planned reform of gambling regulations by six months.
Thousands flee as Taliban attack Afghanistan’s ‘safe’ districts
Thousands of members of Afghanistan’s mainly Shi’ite Hazara ethnic minority have fled their homes in the central province of Ghazni as the Taliban have pressed into two previously safe districts, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says ‘bitter’ measures needed to avoid fiscal crisis
Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro urged state governors on Wednesday to back the approval of reforms his team is preparing, saying some “bitter” austerity measures are needed to avoid a fiscal crisis such as the one Greece went through…
Car plant shows limits to Iran’s economic ambitions in Syria
At an Iranian government-owned car plant near Homs, the small number of vehicles on the assembly line underscores the obstacles hobbling Tehran’s economic ambitions in Syria.
‘Strong chance’ Scotland minister will quit over Brexit: PoliticsHome
There is a “very strong chance” that Scotland Secretary David Mundell will resign over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the editor of PoliticsHome.com said on Wednesday without citing sources.
Ex-Macedonia PM Gruevski has applied for asylum in Hungary: PM’s Office
Former Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski has submitted a an asylum request to the Hungarian immigration office asking for refugee status, the office of Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday.
Bangladesh police break up opposition protest as election nears
Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at opposition party supporters in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday as tension soared weeks before a general election.
Calls for end to Yemen war offer little hope for hungry children
Lying on a dust-covered bed in a hospital ward in the Yemeni city of Taiz, 10-year-old Ghazi Mohammed barely has enough energy to watch doctors and nurses examine his emaciated body.
Billionaire’s son held in Israeli diamond smuggling case
(The Nov. 6 story officially corrects to delete reference to one of the suspects in the case, in accordance with court order)
Hand-shake as Lebanese civil war Christian rivals reconcile
Christian rivals from the Lebanese civil war Samir Geagea and Suleiman Frangieh shook hands with each other on Wednesday, marking a formal reconciliation to end a more than four decades-long enmity.
