France drops charges against Rwandan officials
PARIS – Investigative magistrates in France have dropped charges against nine Rwandan officials investigated over the death of the country’s president in 1994, an event that led to a genocide…
Putin says Russia is ready to deploy new hypersonic nuclear missile
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin says that Russia will deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type…
Martial law expires in Ukraine
KIEV – Martial law, imposed on November 25 in some Ukrainian areas after Russia captured three Ukrainian ships, has expired, President Petro Poroshenko told the country’s security council. Poroshenko said…
Several dead in suicide attack on Libyan foreign ministry
TRIPOLI – Three suicide bombers have attacked Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli, killing at least two other people as well as themselves, authorities said. The three attackers began their assault…
Masked youths attack Bangladeshi journalists covering election campaign
DHAKA – Around two dozen masked youths have attacked a group of Bangladeshi reporters with hockey sticks and batons, injuring about 10 of them, when they were resting at a…
Indonesia tsunami survivors hold vigil at Christmas mass
CARITA – It was a solemn Christmas for the congregation in Indonesia’s Carita, a seaside town left reeling from the tsunami that has killed over 400 people and devastated the…
See differences as asset, not danger, pope says in Christmas message
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, in his Christmas message to the world, has urged people to see differences as a source of richness instead of danger and called for reconciliation…
Indonesian rescuers use drones, sniffer dogs as tsunami death toll tops 400
LABUAN – Indonesian rescuers have used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429…
Thailand approves medical marijuana in New Year’s ‘gift’
BANGKOK – Thailand has approved marijuana for medical use, the first legalisation of the drug in a region with some of the world’s strictest drug laws. The junta-appointed parliament in…
Actor Kevin Spacey charged with indecent assault in Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS – Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been charged in connection with an allegation that he sexually abused an 18-year-old boy at a Nantucket, Massachusetts, bar more than two years…
