MYANMAR’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s military commander yesterday opened a major conference with representatives of ethnic minority groups to try to move toward a lasting peace after seven decades of strained relations and armed conflict.
VIETNAM A former chairman of one of Vietnam’s largest mobile phone operators and a senior Communications Ministry official have been arrested for alleged economic mismanagement, the latest to fall in a widening crackdown on corruption by communist authorities.
THAILAND The 12 boys rescued from deep within a flooded cave in northern Thailand made two-finger victory signs from their hospital beds yesterday in a moving video from the isolation ward where they’re recuperating from their 18-day ordeal.
INDIA’s top court yesterday slammed the federal government for a second time within weeks for being slow in taking steps to protect the Taj Mahal, the shining white monument to love.
EGYPT’s official news agency says security forces killed at least 11 suspected militants in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
UGANDA Police used tear gas and bullets to break up a street protest against a new tax targeting social media users.
CYPRUS Turkey’s president says he thinks the mindset of Greek Cypriots remains unchanged from when the latest effort to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus collapsed a year ago.
GREECE-RUSSIA Relations between Greece and Russia came under strain yesterday after Greece’s government spokesman suggested that Russian diplomats stationed in the country could be expelled for acting unlawfully and “disrespecting” the Greek state.
THE VATICAN is drafting guidelines to help Catholic dioceses find appropriate ways to decommission unneeded churches so they don’t end up as discos, gymnasiums or gelato shops.
GERMANY An Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in a bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally in France was charged in Germany yesterday with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder.
BRAZIL A top court has received 146 habeas corpus petitions on behalf of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following a dramatic back-and-forth between lower court judges over whether he should be released from jail.
MEXICO Authorities in the northern state of Baja California say that a drone carrying two deactivated grenades landed on a property owned by the state’s security chief.
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