Istanbul tightens New Year security, dozens arrested ahead of attack anniversary
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will more than double the number of police officers on duty in Istanbul to 37,000 and ban public celebrations in key districts on New Year’s Eve for security reasons, a year after a gunman killed 39 people in a nightclub, of…
Philippines’ drug enforcement agents face heat now they running Duterte’s war on drugs
MANILA (Reuters) – Carrying firearms and search warrants, and prepared for fierce resistance, about 30 Philippine anti-drugs agents pour out of three vans in a dramatic raid in one of the capital’s illicit drugs hotbeds.
U.N. says Saudi-led coalition raids in Yemen kill 109 civilians
GENEVA (Reuters) – A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has killed 109 civilians in air strikes in the past 10 days, including 54 at a crowded market and 14 members of one family in a farm, the top U.N. official in the country said on Thursday.
Kremlin says Putin critic Navalny’s protest call to be investigated
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that a call by opposition leader Alexei Navalny to hold nationwide protests to back a boycott of next year’s presidential election would be investigated to see if it broke the law.
Islamic State claims blasts at Afghan Shi’ite center, news agency that kill dozens
KABUL (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Shi’ite cultural center and news agency on Thursday in the Afghan capital that killed dozens of people attending a conference.
Singapore court rejects gay man’s bid to adopt biological son
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A Singapore court has rejected a gay Singaporean doctor’s bid to adopt his biological child because he was born by a surrogate mother in the United States through a procedure not available for unmarried couples in the island state…
Russian police seize ex-factory owner who fled after shooting
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police arrested on Thursday the former owner of a pastry factory who had returned to the plant and opened fire wounding one person before escaping a siege by special forces, according to a statement.
China says no sanction-breaking oil sales to North Korea
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Thursday there had been no U.N. sanction-breaking oil sales by Chinese ships to North Korea, after a South Korea newspaper said Chinese and North Korean vessels had been illicitly linking up at sea to get oil to North …
Sumo: Former yokozuna Harumafuji summarily indicted for assault
TOKYO (Reuters) – Prosecutors summarily indicted Mongolian-born former sumo grand champion Harumafuji for assaulting a junior wrestler, a local prosecutors office in Tottori, western Japan, said on Thursday, in a move to seek the payment of fines rathe…
Blast at Afghan news agency in Kabul kills dozens
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide attack on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and a neighboring Shi’ite cultural center in the capital Kabul killed dozens on Thursday, officials and witnesses said, with many of the victims students attending a confer…
