Father speaks out after Australia’s worst mass shooting for decades
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The father of four murdered children spoke out on Sunday as details emerged of the mass shooting that killed three generations of the same family on a farm in the Margaret River wine-growing region in the country’s rural south west.
Malaysian police to review CCTV footage from apartment block linked to ousted PM Najib’s family
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Police will check CCTV footage from a deluxe Kuala Lumpur apartment block at which relatives of ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak may have been staying, but the city’s police chief said an earlier Reuters report had mischaracte…
Iran court sentences eight men to death over Islamic State attack – TV
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian court on Sunday sentenced eight men to death over attacks that killed 18 people at the parliament and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum last year in the first deadly operation by Islamic State in the country, state TV…
Suspected IS-inspired suicide bombers attack Indonesian churches, at least nine dead
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Suicide bombers suspected to be from an Islamic State-inspired group killed at least nine people and wounded 40 in attacks on Christians attending Sunday morning services at three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Sura…
Cambodia makes first arrest using new royal insult law
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A 50-year-old teacher has been arrested in Cambodia for allegedly insulting the monarchy in a comment posted on Facebook, police said on Sunday, the first such arrest since the country adopted a royal insult law earlier this year…
China condemns Myanmar border violence
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Sunday condemned fighting in Myanmar between Myanmar government troops and ethnic militants near the Chinese border , which had caused people to flee into Chinese territory.
Suicide bombers attack churches in Indonesia, at least six dead
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 35 others, police said.
Suicide bombers attack three churches in Indonesia, at least three dead
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, police said.
One killed in Paris knife attack by man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’
PARIS (Reuters) – An assailant shouting “Allahu akbar” killed a passer-by in a knife attack that also wounded four others in the heart of Paris late on Saturday before he was shot dead by police, French authorities said.
China’s first home-built carrier sets out for sea trials
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier left its northeastern port to begin sea trials on Sunday, state media said, the latest milestone in the country’s efforts to modernize its military.
