YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar policeman now serving a prison sentence gave more details to a court on Wednesday about how he says two Reuters reporters were framed by police, in what has become a landmark press freedom case for the Southeast Asian nation. Source: Reuters World News
CARACAS/BARINAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - During his 2013 presidential campaign, Nicolas Maduro opened rallies with an emotional recording of Venezuela's national anthem sung by the recently-deceased Hugo Chavez. Source: Reuters World News
DEPOK, Indonesia (Reuters) - Islamist militant prisoners have killed five members of an elite Indonesian counter-terrorism force at a high-security jail and were holding one of them hostage on Wednesday, police said. Source: Reuters World News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian state television said a blast killed one person and injured others on Wednesday in the Maysat square of the capital Damascus. Source: Reuters World News
It's the dream pairing golf fans yearn for, but Phil Mickelson has upped the ante and called out Tiger Woods for a separate high-stakes shootout. Source: Latest CNN News
Throughout history, sovereigns have celebrated their marriages with elaborate gifts, from priceless tiaras and ancient antiques to foreign territories and valuable trading rights. But while a parade of splendor coming from all corners of the world seems wonderfully royal, this kind of pageantry seems to belong to the yesteryear of weddings, rather than the present [...]
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and China, whose relations have been soured by disputes dating back to World War Two, hailed warming ties on Wednesday after agreeing to set up a security hotline to defuse possible maritime incidents that could spark tensions. Source: Reuters World News
DEPOK, Indonesia (Reuters) - Islamist militants killed five police at a high-security Indonesian prison and were holding one hostage on Wednesday following clashes at the jail on the outskirts of Jakarta, police said. Source: Reuters World News
MANBIJ, Syria (Reuters) - U.S. forces set up a new base in Manbij in northern Syria some three months ago after Turkish threats to march on the town, a U.S.-backed militia official there said on Wednesday. Source: Reuters World News
Oil prices surged more than two percent in Asia on Wednesday after Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, fuelling fresh geopolitical uncertainty. Both main crude contracts have been rising in recent weeks to reach three-and-half-year highs on expectations the US president would withdraw from the 2015 pact, which opened [...]