Reuters World News Summary

Following is a summary of current world news briefs. Britain to ban Lebanon's Hezbollah as terrorist group

Britain said on Monday it plans to ban all wings of Hezbollah due to its destabilizing influence in the Middle East, classing the Lebanese Islamist movement as a terrorist organization. London had already proscribed Hezbollah's external security unit and its military wing in 2001 and 2008 respectively, but now wants to outlaw its political arm too. Turkey concerned about Uighurs, urges China to protect freedom of religion in Xinjiang

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu voiced concern on Monday at China's alleged mistreatment of Uighurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region and called for authorities to protect freedom of religion and cultural identity. Without specifically mentioning mass detention camps reported to hold one million Muslims - which China says are centers for vocational education - Cavusoglu told the U.N. Huamn Rights Council that "reports regarding human rights violations against Uighurs and other Muslim communities in Xinjiang are serious cause for concern". Cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams not racist: Australia watchdog

A cartoon published in an Australian newspaper that depicted tennis star Serena Williams having a temper tantrum at the U.S. Open last year was not racist, Australia's media watchdog said on Monday. The caricature of an angry Williams - with exaggerated lips and tongue and a wild plume of curly hair rising above her head as she stomped on her tennis racket - was condemned as racist by civil rights leaders, celebrities and fans. Facing a Brexit delay? PM May renews efforts for deal change

Prime Minister Theresa May faces a growing threat that she will be forced to delay Brexit, a move that risks a showdown with eurosceptics in her Conservative Party just weeks before Britain is due to leave the European Union. With Britain's Brexit crisis going down to the wire, May is struggling to get the kind of changes from the EU she says she needs to get her divorce deal through a deeply divided parliament and smooth the country's biggest policy shift in more than 40 years. Japan to push ahead with U.S. base relocation despite Okinawa referendum result

A majority of voters in a referendum on Okinawa opposed a plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the southern Japanese island, but the central government said on Monday it intended to press ahead with its construction plans. Just over 70 percent of voters opposed relocating the U.S. Marines' Futenma air base within Okinawa in Sunday's non-binding referendum, with a turnout of 53 percent. Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki was elected on that platform in September. Trump won't rush North Korea on denuclearization; peace deal possible

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un hold a second summit this week with no real expectation of a final deal on ridding the North of nuclear weapons but hope raised on Monday for an official peace on the peninsula at long last. The two leaders are due to meet in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. Global rules-based order clearly under threat: EU's Tusk

The rules-based global order is "clearly under threat", the chairman of European Union leaders Donald Tusk said on Monday. "We have agreed here, in Sharm el-Sheikh, that both sides will work together to defend it," he said at a summit of EU and Arab leaders. Baring Vostok asks Putin to intervene after U.S. investor detained

Russia-based private equity group Baring Vostok appealed on Monday for President Vladimir Putin to intervene in a criminal investigation into its U.S. founder Michael Calvey and other executives. Prosecutors last week formally charged Calvey, the founder of Baring Vostok, and several other of its executives, with fraud after detaining them earlier this month. After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.

Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes. The targets included the Pentagon and the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland. China says hopes world provides 'constructive' help to Venezuela

China hopes that the international community can provide "constructive" help to Venezuela based on respect for the country's sovereignty, the foreign ministry said on Monday, after Venezuelan troops repelled foreign aid convoys. Violent clashes between security forces and a U.S.-backed opposition attempt on Saturday to bring aid into the economically devastated country left almost 300 wounded and at least three protesters dead near the Brazilian border.