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TIRANA, June 12 (Reuters) – Former Albanian leader Sali Berisha, now the head of the main opposition party, said on Friday that the United States has lifted a travel ban placed on him in 2021. The U.S. State Department had barred Berisha – a former president and prime minister who steered the Balkan country after …
TAIPEI, June 12 (Reuters) – Somaliland has a right to choose its own relationships and pressure tactics from Beijing and Mogadishu have not succeeded in altering its friendship with Taipei, its top diplomat in Taiwan said on Friday at the opening of a new office. Strategically situated on the Horn of Africa, Somaliland has enjoyed …
Investigators in Washington County, Minnesota, say they’ve identified the human remains found in two Twin Cities lakes more than three decades ago. Denise Elaine Sexton Hartley, the youngest of 15 siblings from St. Paul, disappeared in 1993 at the age of 27. In June of that year, a severed human head was discovered near Bone …
China has arrested an American citizen for alleged espionage, the country’s government confirmed Friday, identifying the man as a political analyst for a policy think tank focused on neighboring Myanmar. U Min Zin, a founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar (ISP-M), has faced “criminal compulsory measures,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian …
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An Iranian woman is among around two dozens migrants set to arrive Friday in the Central African Republic on a deportation flight from the United States, lawyers said, in the latest example of the Trump administration’s widely criticized deals with African and Latin American nations to take third-country deportees, …
BERLIN, June 12 (Reuters) – The airport in the German city of Hamburg was evacuated on Friday due to a security incident, regional public broadcaster NDR reported, citing police. (Reporting by Thomas Seythal, Editing by Linda Pasquini) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – June 2026
BANGKOK (AP) — An American scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy was arrested by Chinese authorities on suspicion of spying, China’s foreign ministry said Friday. The scholar, Min Zin, was suspected of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security,” said China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian. It is …
By Heru Asprihanto and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, June 12 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Indonesian students rallied in Jakarta on Friday to protest the spending priorities of President Prabowo Subianto’s government, including this week’s decision to raise gasoline prices. Calling the protest “Heading to Bankrupt Indonesia”, university students marched towards central Jakarta’s iconic Bundaran HI landmark, …
By Panu Wongcha-um and Poppy McPherson BANGKOK, June 12 (Reuters) – An American businessman who wrote a book about living through a military coup in Myanmar was detained on his return to the Southeast Asian nation on Thursday, according to two people briefed on the matter. Adam Castillo, a former head of the American Chamber …
Phil Mickelson has been kicked out of a San Diego golf club over allegations he made unwanted physical contact with a female employee, Golf Digest reported Thursday. Golf Digest cited multiple sources as saying Mickelson is no longer welcome at The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, where the six-time major champion has …