Apple charged with breaching EU tech rules, faces another probe ( www.reuters.com )
European Union antitrust regulators charged on Monday that Apple breached the bloc's tech rules, a charge that could result in a hefty fine for the iPhone maker which also faces another investigation into new fees imposed on app developers....
Cyber attack compromised Indonesia data centre, ransom sought | Reuters ( www.reuters.com )
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" ( www.reuters.com )
Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....
Alberta's left-leaning opposition picks former Calgary mayor as party leader ( www.reuters.com )
Alberta's opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) has chosen former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi as its new leader, party officials announced on Saturday....
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" ( www.reuters.com )
Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....
Russia says U.S. is responsible for deadly Ukrainian attack on Crimea ( www.reuters.com )
MOSCOW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied missiles that killed at least five people including three children and injured 124 more....
Barcelona plans to shut all holiday apartments by 2028 ( www.reuters.com )
Gunmen fire on targets in Russia's Dagestan region, six police killed, officials say ( www.reuters.com )
Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing six policemen and injuring 12, the region's interior ministry was quoted as saying....
Reuters denies reporting that Israel will attack Lebanon ( www.reuters.com )
June 22 (Reuters) - Reuters denied on Saturday that it had reported that Israel would attack Lebanon within 48 hours, after reports circulated on social media citing the news agency as saying this....
Armenia recognises Palestinian statehood, says Armenian foreign ministry ( www.reuters.com )
Alberta's left-leaning opposition picks former Calgary mayor as party leader ( www.reuters.com )
Alberta's opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) has chosen former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi as its new leader, party officials announced on Saturday....
India's May oil imports: Russia at record high, Saudi lowest in 10-mth ( www.reuters.com )
Power outage hits Balkan states as heat overloads system, minister says ( www.reuters.com )
PODGORICA, June 21 (Reuters) - A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia's coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting down traffic lights and leaving people sweltering without air conditioning in the middle of a heatwave....
China’s risky answer to wall of debt is more debt ( www.reuters.com )
China’s economy is buried under a great wall of debt and Xi Jinping’s answer is to add more bricks. The president has sanctioned an extraordinary programme of borrowing by the central government to steer the $18 trillion behemoth to “high quality development”. In doing so, he is piling risk onto the country’s last...
China threatens death penalty for 'diehard' Taiwan separatists ( www.reuters.com )
Lawmakers in Philippines push for probe into Pentagon's anti-vax propaganda operation ( www.reuters.com )
Weary Lebanese brace for war after new Hezbollah threats ( www.reuters.com )
BEIRUT/SIDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Lebanese product designer Tara Tabet does not want to see her country pulled into a full-scale war with Israel, but like many of her compatriots is bracing for possible conflict after new threats by armed group Hezbollah against both Israel and Cyprus....
China says Dalai Lama must 'thoroughly correct' his political views ( www.reuters.com )
Why pick on us? Cyprus perplexed by Hezbollah threats ( www.reuters.com )
Beluga whale pair move from Ukraine's war-torn Kharkiv to Spain's Valencia ( www.reuters.com )
MADRID, June 20 (Reuters) - Marine biologists have moved a pair of beluga whales from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv - the target of daily shelling by Russian forces - to the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, in what they described as a long and risky international rescue operation....
Sudan's cemeteries swell with fresh graves as hunger and disease spread ( www.reuters.com )
China coast guard personnel a "band of barbarians", says Philippine navy official ( www.reuters.com )
Thailand to be first Southeast Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage ( www.reuters.com )
Ukraine's international bond rework derailed as deadline nears ( www.reuters.com )
Ukraine has not been able to reach an agreement with a group of bondholders over restructuring some $20 billion of international debt during formal talks, it said on Monday, raising the spectre that the war-torn country might slip into default...