India vows more tough action, and aid, to tackle Kashmir conundrum
SRINAGAR (Reuters) – India will go on hunting militants in Kashmir despite widespread protests over the killing of a young separatist commander, officials said, as the government bets that force coupled with development will quell rebellion in the rest…
EU proposes new asylum rules to stop migrants crossing Europe
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone.
Three held over murder of another environmental activist in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police have arrested three men for the murder of Lesbia Urquia, an environmental activist who fought against hydroelectric and mining projects on indigenous lands in the Central American country, authorities said on Wed…
Likely hack of U.S. banking regulator by China covered up: probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Chinese government likely hacked computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2010, 2011 and 2013 and employees at the U.S. banking regulator covered up the intrusions, according to a congressional report on Wedn…
U.S. sends 47 troops to South Sudan to protect Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Wednesday that it had deployed 47 troops to South Sudan to protect U.S. citizens and the U.S. embassy after an outbreak of deadly violence in the country.
China vows to protect South China Sea sovereignty, Manila upbeat
BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) – China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air defense zone, after rejecting an international tribunal’s ruling denying its claims to …
Death toll in Italy train crash put at 23, government promises investment
BARI, Italy (Reuters) – The death toll from a head-on train collision in southern Italy was put at 23 on Wednesday after rescuers worked through the night to extract bodies from the tangled wreckage.
Pakistan says leader of school attack killed in U.S. drone strike
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The alleged mastermind of the 2014 attack on a school in Pakistan in which more than 150 people died, most of them children, has been killed in an American drone strike in Afghanistan, the Pakistan military and sources in…
Top militant Umar Khalifa killed in U.S. air strike in Afghanistan: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top militant Umar Khalifa, a leader of the Tariq Gidar Group, was killed along with four other fighters in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan targeting members of the Islamic State-Khorasan Province, the Pentagon said on Wednesday….
Brazilian Islamist eyed attack on French team during Rio games: official
PARIS (Reuters) – A Brazilian Islamist militant was plotting an attack against the French delegation at the summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, the head of a French intelligence agency has said.
