Third suspect arrested in Malaysia over murder of North Korean
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police made a third arrest on Thursday in their hunt for the people involved in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Baghdad car bomb kills 51 as Islamic State escalates insurgency
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A car packed with explosives blew up on Thursday in southern Baghdad, killing at least 51 people and wounding 55, security and medical sources said, in the deadliest such attack in Iraq this year.
Philippine senator accuses Duterte of stashing millions of dollars
MANILA (Reuters) – A staunch critic of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday revived allegations of millions of dollars of hidden assets that he said the president had yet to answer, an assertion Duterte’s camp dismissed as a publicity stunt.
New U.N. team aims to bring Syria war crimes to court
GENEVA (Reuters) – A new body is being set up at the United Nations in Geneva to prepare prosecutions of war crimes committed in Syria, U.N. officials and diplomats said on Thursday.
Putin says Russian, U.S. intelligence agencies should restore ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday it was in the interests of both Russia and the United States to restore communications between their respective intelligence agencies.
Libya sends new request for military training to NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO said on Thursday it had received a new and detailed request from Libya’s U.N.-backed government to train and develop its military, depleted by years of conflict and facing an Islamist militant threat as well as division among …
Plane strike hits Yemen mourners, killing 9 women, 1 child: residents
SANAA (Reuters) – Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition struck a house north of Yemen’s capital where a crowd of mourners was gathered, residents said on Thursday, killing nine women and a child and injuring dozens.
Netanyahu’s far-right allies hail U.S. shift on ‘two states’
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right political allies hailed on Thursday a shift in U.S. support for a Palestinian state and shrugged off a call by President Donald Trump to curb Israeli settlements on occupied land.
Nearly 15,000 lost children seek parents in chaos of South Sudan’s war
BENTIU (Reuters) – In the chaos of South Sudan’s civil war, it took three years for Nyagonga Machul to find her lost children.
NATO European allies to jointly buy planes, set up new elite HQ
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European NATO allies agreed on Thursday to jointly buy planes and submarines and possibly open a new command headquarters for elite troops as Europe seeks to show the United States it is serious about its own security.
