Russian authorities hunt metro bomber accomplices; several detained
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – Russian authorities detained several people in St Petersburg on Thursday after finding an explosive device in one residential building and said they were investigating suspected accomplices of the man behind this week’s deadly…
Assad tells paper he sees no ‘option except victory’ in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said there is no “option except victory” in the country’s civil war in an interview published on Thursday, saying the government could not reach “results” with opposition groups that attended recent p…
Israeli killed in Palestinian car ramming in West Bank: army
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli army said a car driven by a Palestinian deliberately rammed into two Israelis, killing one and injuring the other, in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
Autopsy results show chemical weapons used in Syrian attack: Turkish minister
ANKARA (Reuters) – Autopsy results have revealed that chemical weapons were used in an attack which killed at least 70 people in Syria’s Idlib province, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told reporters on Thursday.
South African ministers sacked by Zuma resign as ANC lawmakers
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Three cabinet ministers removed by President Jacob Zuma in a reshuffle last week quit as lawmakers of his African National Congress on Thursday ahead of a vote of no-confidence in him that the ANC has said it will defeat.
South Korea prosecution to question Lotte Group chief in graft probe
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean prosecutors said on Thursday they have summoned Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin for questioning as a witness in an investigation of an influence-peddling scandal that led to the dismissal and arrest of former presiden…
Explosion in Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, one person hurt: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – There was an explosion in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don early on Thursday, and one person was hurt, a law enforcement source told TASS news agency.
China blocks visit by Australian MPs because of rights criticism: sources
SYDNEY (Reuters) – China called off a visit by two Australian politicians after it took offense to a letter that called on it to address allegations of human right abuses, two sources familiar with the planned tour told Reuters on Thursday.
Nightmare looms for transgender Thais at army draft
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A group of young transgender Thais sits together in women’s clothes behind rows of men, waiting for military officers to call their names and decide whether they must be drafted as soldiers.
Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militants, eight killed: governor
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish F-16 warplanes launched air strikes on Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing eight of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, a provincial governor’s office said.
