LONDON (AP) – Nigeria’s president is set to make a state visit to the U.K. in March, the first such trip by a Nigerian leader in almost four decades, Britain’s Buckingham Palace said Sunday. Officials said President Bola Tinubu and first lady Oluremi Tinubu will travel to the U.K. on March 18 and 19.
BANGKOK (AP) – The Bhumjaithai party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul took a commanding lead in Thailand’s general election Sunday, with about 90% of the voting reported, according to unofficial results from the state Election Commission.
The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency – that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death’s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
NEW YORK (AP) – The FBI collected ample proof that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel ‘s security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority.
BANGKOK (AP) – Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5% to a record on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.
TOKYO (AP) – Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s gamble that her personal popularity would lead to big election gains for her struggling party paid off hugely.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, after lengthy politically motivated detentions.
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