China said it had lodged a complaint with the United States over a U.S. spy plane that flew over parts of the disputed South China Sea in a diplomatic row that has fuelled tension between the world’s two largest economies. Friction in the region has grown over China’s land reclamation in the Spratly islands. China last week said it was “strongly dissatisfied” after a U.S. spy plane flew over areas
The Philippines is seeking a “stronger commitment” from the United States to help its ally, the defense minister said on Monday, as China asserts its sovereignty over disputed areas of the South China Sea. China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, and the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims. China said on Monday it had lodged
By Praveen Menon WANG KELIAN, Malaysia (Reuters) – Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country’s police chief said on Monday. The dense jungles of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major stop-off point for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by
An Air France flight from Paris was escorted by U.S. fighter jets to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, according to WABC television. Flight 22 from Charles de Gaulle Airport landed safely, an airport official said. It was to be taken to a secure area at the New York airport to be searched, according to ABC News.
By Mohammed Mukhashaf and Mohammed Ghobari ADEN/CAIRO (Reuters) – Local Sunni Muslim militia ejected Shi’ite Houthi rebels from much of the southern Yemeni city of Dalea on Monday, residents and combatants said, inflicting the first significant setback on the Iranian-backed rebels in two months of civil war. Dalea had been a bastion of southern secessionists in Yemen before the Houthis took widespread control of the city in arch, after having
(Reuters) – At least 10 people died on Monday morning after a tornado hit Ciudad Acuna, a Mexican city on the border with Texas, Mayor Evaristo Lenin Perez said. The whirlwind damaged hundreds of concrete buildings, knocking down walls and ceilings, as well as wrecking vehicles in the city, Perez said. “Most of the dead are people who were outside, not people who were inside their homes,” he said. (Reporting
By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi told thousands of supporters his government was devoted to the poor on Monday, directly tackling criticism he has governed for the rich and failed farmers in his first year in office. On the eve of the government’s first anniversary Modi traveled south from New Delhi to a region hard hit by crop losses and bad weather to
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is protesting Russia’s decision to turn away an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A man newly elected to Nigeria’s Senate refused to attend a Monday court hearing on his extradition to the United States on 20-year-old drug charges related to the TV hit “Orange is the New Black.”
Army veteran Bernie Klemanek, of Mineral, Va., stops to salute his fallen comrades on Memorial Day during an early morning visit to “The Wall” at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, Monday, May 25, 2015. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)