Cuba’s proposed new constitution: what will change
Cuba has begun a public debate on issues ranging from one-party rule and socialism to inequality, gay rights, private property and restructuring of the country’s government as it moves to replace a Cold War-era constitution.
Erdogan vows action against ‘economic terrorists’ over lira plunge
President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused “economic terrorists” of plotting to harm Turkey by spreading false reports and said they would face the full force of the law, as authorities launched investigations of those suspected of involvement.
Spanish rescue boat finds life and death off coast of Libya
The wreck of the raft was a dot on the sea but as our rescue boat approached we saw a woman make an effort to wave, so at least there was life.
Mozambique police name “ringleaders” behind Islamist threat
Mozambique’s security forces have identified six men they regard as the ringleaders of a nascent Islamist insurgency that has killed over 100 people in the north, and called on local people to help capture them, news agency Lusa reported on Monday.
Sweden says detained publisher in China examined by Swedish doctor
Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, who has been held by Chinese authorities off and on since 2015, was examined by a Swedish doctor in a Chinese hospital on Monday, Sweden’s foreign minister said.
Fire hits Myanmar hospital, patients evacuated on stretchers
A fire broke out in a hospital in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon late on Monday, forcing staff to evacuate patients on stretchers and in wheelchairs, rescuers said.
Iraq to respect dollar ban but not all U.S. sanctions on Iran
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stepped back from his commitment to abide by new U.S. sanctions on Iran on Monday, saying his government would only respect the dollar ban in transactions with Iran.
Yemen buries children killed by air strike, Riyadh insists raid ‘legitimate’
Thousands of mourners on Monday buried dozens of children killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in northern Yemen, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the three-year-old war.
Hundreds hurt as Spanish festival boardwalk collapses into sea
Hundreds of people were hurt, two seriously, when a wooden platform collapsed at a seaside music festival in northwestern Spain on Sunday night, local authorities said.
Azeri human rights activist freed after serving five years
A court in Azerbaijan freed human rights activist Ilgar Mammadov on Monday after he had served five years of a seven-year jail sentence which the European Court of Human Rights has described as “an unjustified restriction of freedom.”
