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Ex-leader David Cameron makes shock return to UK government
LONDON (AP) -- With his country mired in economic doldrums and his party trailing in the polls as an election nears, U.K. leader Rishi Sunak rolled the dice and shook up his government on Monday, appointing former Prime Minister David Cameron to the post of foreign secretary. The move -- called bold by Sunak's supporters and desperate by his critics -- came in a Cabinet overhaul that saw Sunak jettison his powerful but controversial interior minister, Home Secretary Suella Braverman, in a bid to reset his faltering government.
Russia jails an associate of imprisoned Kremlin foe Navalny
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) -- A court in the Siberian city of Tomsk on Monday jailed an associate of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny pending trial on extremism charges, according to an ally, part of an unrelenting crackdown on Russian political activists, independent journalists and rights workers. Ksenia Fadeyeva, who used to run Navalny's office in Tomsk and had a seat in a local legislature, was placed in pre-trial detention several months after her trial began. According to her ally Andrei Fateyev, who reported the development on his Telegram channel, Fadeyeva was placed under house arrest three weeks ago over an alleged violation of restrictions imposed on her earlier.
Dozens of migrants are missing after a boat capsized off Yemen, officials say
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A migrant boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen, leaving dozens of people, mostly from the Horn of Africa, missing, Yemeni officials said Monday. Khalid al-Subeihi, an official with the Yemeni coast guard in the coastal city of Mocha, said the boat with 75 migrants on board capsized Sunday. He told The Associated Press that 26 people survived but at least 49 others remain missing. Another coast guard official, Lt. Co. Olwan al-Qameri, said the search was still underway Monday.
Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepal's government decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok on Monday, saying it was disrupting "social harmony" in the country. The announcement was made following a Cabinet meeting. Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud said the app would be banned immediately. "The government has decided to ban TikTok as it was necessary to regulate the use of the social media platform that was disrupting social harmony, goodwill and flow of indecent materials," Saud said.