Thailand-bound flight escorted safely back to Singapore after bomb threat
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Two Singapore fighter jets escorted a civilian plane bound for Thailand back to the city-state on Thursday after a bomb threat was made by a passenger, the airline and authorities said.
Six miners killed in Georgia in roof collapse: Interior Ministry
TBILISI (Reuters) – Six miners were killed and three injured on Thursday when the roof of a coal mine in western Georgia collapsed, the country’s interior ministry said.
Losing candidate in Sierra Leone election plans legal challenge to result
FREETOWN (Reuters) – The losing candidate in Sierra Leone’s presidential election, Samura Kamara, said the voting was marred by fraud and he plans to launch a legal challenge to the result.
French PM says no talks on SNCF debt until reform talks progress
PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday he would not back down on plans to overhaul the state-run SNCF railways, as the pro-reform CFDT labour union said it would take part in a further wave of strikes starting on Sund…
U.S. diplomats expelled by Russia over Skripal case head for airport: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. diplomats expelled by Russia over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain were seen leaving the U.S. embassy in Moscow on Thursday morning to make their way to the airport, the TASS news agency reported.
France’s CFDT to participate in next rail strike on Sunday: leader
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s CFDT union will take part in the next wave of rolling strikes over reform of the state-run SNCF railways, its leader Laurent Berger said on Thursday.
Philippine Maoist rebels reject preconditions for peace talks
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine Communist guerrillas are willing to resume peace talks with the government after President Rodrigo Duterte revived the idea but reject any preconditions, their leader said on Thursday.
Guatemalan businessmen to build roads and school as part of bribery sentence
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Nine Guatemalan businessmen who were sentenced on Wednesday for paying bribes to receive public contracts will have to build roads and a school in the Central American country as part of their punishment, according to a U.N.-…
Airlines cut back flights as Philippine holiday hotspot prepares for closure
MANILA (Reuters) – A decision by the Philippines to close the holiday hotspot of Boracay, which President Rodrigo Duterte has called a “cesspool”, prompted airlines Thursday to cut back flights to the island, while business groups called for the decisi…
Japan’s Abe faces fresh headache over Iraq troop dispatch logs
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government faced criticism on Thursday, after his defense minister said the army last year found activity logs from a controversial 2004 to 2006 deployment to Iraq, but had failed to report them to…
