HARARE, (Reuters) – Former president Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe’s opposition in today’s election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup.
PHNOM PENH, (Reuters) – Cambodia woke to another chapter of rule by strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, a day after his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared victory in a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Efforts were underway yesterday to rescue several hundred trekkers stranded on Mount Rinjani on Indonesia’s Lombok Island, a day after a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist destination, a disaster agency official said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two High Court judges have accused Chief Justice Ivor Archie of abusing his power by issuing a press release via the Judiciary in response to a private matter he currently has before the Privy Council.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Half of Colombia’s cabinet ministers will be women when the new government takes office next month in a first for the country and a boost for global gender equality.
LONDON, (Reuters) – An international team of scientists has moved closer to creating artificial embryos after using mouse stem cells to make structures capable of taking a crucial step in the development of life.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s likely new Prime Minister Imran Khan opened coalition talks with at least one smaller party and independent politicians on Saturday, a spokesman said, after the announcement of full results of an election disputed by rivals.
LONDON (Reuters) – Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has accused the European Union of trying to cheat Britain out of the Brexit it voted for, according to extracts from a newspaper interview published late on Saturday.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s ruling coalition government failed to win any of the five by-elections held this weekend, defeats widely seen as an indication that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces an uphill challenge to secure re-election.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Agriculture ministers from the G20 countries criticized protectionism in a joint statement on Saturday, and vowed to reform World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, but did not detail what steps they would take to improve the food trade system.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has engaged in a nonstop series of public appearances during his first 100 days in office, stopping everywhere across the island nation in an apparent bid to consolidate his leadership position.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former ruling party conceded defeat to cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan ahead of final results from the country’s disputed election, which European Union monitors said yesterday had not been fought on a level playing field.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Discussions over the future of Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for six years, are ongoing but the matter was not discussed during a recent visit by Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, a British government spokesman said yesterday.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A blood-red moon dazzled star gazers across much of the world yesterday when it moved into Earth’s shadow for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st Century.
(Reuters) – U.S. broadcasting and media company CBS Corp said it was investigating claims of personal misconduct by its chief executive Leslie Moonves made in a New Yorker magazine article that was published yesterday.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan declared victory yesterday in a divisive general election, and said he was ready to lead the nuclear-armed nation despite a long delay in ballot counting and allegations of vote-rigging from his main opponents.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it regrets that Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has failed to publicly state that he will not run for re-election in a planned December election, warning him that “the time for posturing is over.”
KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda’s constitutional court yesterday approved removing the presidential age limit of 75 years, a ruling that would potentially allow President Yoweri Museveni to extend his three-decade rule.