SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Typhoon Matmo hit southern China on Sunday, the state broadcaster said, after flights and many events had been cancelled in the island province of Hainan, causing disruption in a peak holiday season. Matmo, which caused flooding in the Philippines last week, made landfall on the east coast of Xuwen in Guangdong province around…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish prosecutor ordered the detention of 48 suspects, including the mayor of Istanbul’s opposition-run Bayrampasa district, as part of a corruption investigation, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Saturday. The police carried out early morning raids at 72 locations to seize documents and detain suspects on charges including embezzlement, bribery, and tender…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality with offenders facing two to five years in prison, the state broadcaster reported late Monday. The amended family code was approved by the parliament on Monday in an unanimous vote that puts the code into effect more than a year after…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, to a fresh prison term, state broadcaster TRT reported, extending a crackdown on the opposition. Imamoglu, who has been in jail pending trial since March over separate corruption charges, was sentenced to one year and…
BEIJING (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will attend the opening ceremony of China’s international supply chain expo on Wednesday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Tuesday. CCTV attributed the information to the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Huang, who had in a visit in April stressed the importance of the Chinese market,…
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China said the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has damaged Washington’s credibility and Beijing was concerned that the situation “may go out of control”, its state broadcaster reported, following a U.N. Security Council meeting on Sunday. President Donald Trump said the U.S. had “obliterated” Tehran’s key nuclear sites, joining Israel in…