Vietnam appoints top policeman as country’s new president
HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam's parliament elected police minister To Lam as the state president on Wednesday, in a move analysts see…
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New Caledonia protesters, police spar ahead of Macron visit
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -Protesters in New Caledonia erected new barricades overnight in "cat-and-mouse" games with French police reinforcements ahead of the…
Ukrainian gunners finally get shells to stop Russians near Kharkiv
NEAR VOVCHANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian servicemen operating a howitzer in Kharkiv region near the Russian border work around the…
Shaken passengers arrive in Singapore after deadly turbulence-hit flight
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -More than 140 passengers and crew from a Singapore Airlines flight on which one person died during heavy…
Elderly Russian scientist jailed for 14 years for treason
(Reuters) - Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was convicted of treason on Tuesday and sentenced to 14 years in a penal…
Slovak PM Fico has CT scan during recovery from assassination attempt
(Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico underwent a follow-up abdominal CT scan and remains conscious and communicative, doctors treating…
Finland proposes new law to stem migration from Russia
HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland's government proposed emergency legislation on Tuesday to block asylum seekers entering across its vast and often snow-bound…
Srebrenica survivors still haunted as UN votes on genocide remembrance
SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Kada Hotic last saw her son, husband and brother on July 11, 1995, as Bosnian Serb…
Swarmed with tourists, Japan town blocks off viral view of Mt. Fuji
FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's majestic Mt. Fuji was some 700,000 years in the making, but on one sultry May…