Philippine police find home-made bomb near U.S. embassy, rebels suspected
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the U.S. embassy in Manila on Monday and said militants sympathetic to Islamic State could have been responsible.
Thousands uprooted in east Aleppo as Syrian army advances
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Several thousand residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, residents and a monitor said on Sunday, after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces that rebels fear could split their most important ur…
China detains nine for collapsed power plant disaster that killed 74
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have formally detained nine people involved in a power plant construction project in the east of the country which collapsed last week killing 74 people, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday.
Even dissidents hold back as Castro’s death casts a pall over Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s most prominent dissident group called off its weekly protest march for the first time in 13 years on Sunday following the death of its nemesis Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader whose passing has cast a pall over the islan…
Fukushima nuclear decommission, compensation costs to almost double: media
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s trade ministry has almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion), th…
Former sex slave helps women reclaim their branded bodies with new tattoos
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After escaping years of sexual slavery, Jennifer Kempton could not look in the mirror without being taken back to her dark, traumatic past.
Thatcher admirer Fillon wins French conservative presidential ticket
PARIS (Reuters) – Hardline reformist Francois Fillon scored a resounding win in France’s conservative primaries on Sunday, making him favorite to win a presidential election five months from now against the popular far-right and a deeply divided left.
Iraqi forces grind on in east Mosul as political rift opens over Shi’ite militias
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq’s sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi’ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State’s biggest st…
Israeli air strike kills four Islamic State-linked gunmen on Golan
(Reuters) – Israeli aircraft killed four Islamic State-linked gunmen on Sunday after they fired mortars and shot at troops patrolling along the occupied Golan Heights, the military said.
Islamic State gone, Mosul district residents adjust to new life
GOGJALI, Iraq (Reuters) – Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama’s customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment.
