An Australian teenager who broke an egg on a controversial far-right senator’s head says he has given almost A$100,000 (£55,000; $69,000) to survivors of the Christchurch mosque attacks. Will Connolly, 17, egged Fraser Anning in March – prompting people online to dub him “Egg Boy” and flood him with donations to pay his legal expenses. […]
Burma’s Rohingya Muslim minority is facing fresh atrocities and human rights violations at the hands of the military, according to a report by Amnesty International. Evidence gathered through interviews in the western Rakhine state since January documents indiscriminate attacks, extra-judicial executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and enforced disappearances. The crackdown appears to have escalated in response […]
Singapore has reclaimed its spot as the world’s most competitive economy, an accolade it last won in 2010. The Lion City jumped from third place last year to first, switching places with the United States, which slipped from top spot to third. For the previous four years, Singapore had hovered around the third or fourth […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – North Korea’s entire weapons of mass destruction programme violates UN Security Council resolutions, the US State Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday (May 28), when asked about recent missile launches by Pyongyang. “I think the entire North Korean WMD programme, it’s in conflict with the UN Security Council resolutions. But what the US […]
KATHMANDU (AFP) – Former Gurkha soldier Nirmal Purja remains on target to conquer the world’s 14 highest mountains in a record-breaking seven months despite death-defying queues on the biggest peak of them all. Waiting for more than seven hours last week to get to the top of Everest and then back to the safety of […]
'The court is not where one goes to for permission to keep pets': Judge on sibling dispute over dogs
SINGAPORE – A long-running dispute between siblings centred around a house willed to them by their late mother has taken a strange turn – with the disagreement now turning towards whether one of them had the right to move in with two of her dogs. In a written judgment released on Monday (May 27), Justice […]
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) – Nissan found out about Renault’s merger talks with Fiat Chrysler just days before they became public, four sources told Reuters, stoking fears at the Japanese carmaker that a deal could further weaken its position in a 20-year alliance with Renault. Nissan Motor Co Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa likely first caught wind of […]
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s economy likely shrank in the first quarter of this year for the first time since 2016, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Tuesday, with activity hit by delayed fiscal reforms, weak investment and rising unemployment. If confirmed, it will be the first contraction since a deep 2015-2016 recession from which […]
(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures dipped on Tuesday following an extended weekend as investors took a cautious stance after President Donald Trump signaled that the United States and China are far from a trade agreement. Trump on Monday said he was “not yet ready” to make a deal with China but he expected one […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s financial watchdog on Tuesday ordered Nomura Holdings to improve its business practices after the country’s biggest brokerage admitted an employee had leaked market information. The Financial Services Agency said it had issued one of its “business improvement orders” against Nomura, a regulatory punishment that requires firms to submit a plan detailing […]