Israeli military vows response to Iran attack as calls for restraint mount
Pentagon chief stresses Middle East stability in calls with counterparts
Jury selection under way in historic Trump criminal trial
Russia's prosecutor general arrives in Cuba for bilateral talks
Wars to dominate G7 talks as foreign ministers seek path to peace
India's Modi warns of 'black money' in political funding after old system scrapped by court
India raises windfall tax on petroleum crude
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PHILLIPINE Outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the families of people killed in his controversial war on drugs will not receive “justice”, rejecting calls from rights groups seeking redress for the thousands of deaths.
MEXICO Epigmenio Centeno had hoped to cross the Mexican border into the United States in the coming months, but he and his wife have shelved their plans for fear of being separated from their two sons under U.S. President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
INDONESIA Indonesia’s search and rescue agency has revised up the number of passengers missing after a ferry sank in Lake Toba on Sumatra island this week to 180 from around 130 estimated earlier, an official from the agency told Reuters on Wednesday.
CANADA Canada’s upper house of parliament on Tuesday approved a revised bill to legalize recreational marijuana, setting the stage for the country to become the first Group of Seven nation to legalize cannabis.
AUSTRALIA Australia’s largest telecom firm Telstra Corp Ltd said it would cut a quarter of its workforce and flagged asset sales on Wednesday, as competition and new technology crush its mainstay fixed-line businesses and force a strategic reset.
CHINA China will soon announce a further opening of sectors to foreign investment, extending a years-long effort to liberalize capital markets and loosen investment rules in the world’s second-biggest economy.
IRAQ Iraq condemned air strikes targeting forces fighting Islamic State in Iraq or Syria after Syrian state media said that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had bombed a Syrian army position near the Iraqi border, causing deaths and injuries.
US The United States withdrew from a “hypocritical and self-serving” United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform, a move activists warned would make advancing human rights globally even more difficult.