Kurdish militants kill policeman in eastern Turkey
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli overnight, killing one police officer and wounding two others, the provincial governor’s office said on Sunday.
Thousands join funeral procession for Cambodian government critic
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Thousands of people attended a funeral procession in Cambodia’s capital on Sunday for a prominent government critic, Kem Ley, whose killing has raised fears about political violence in the run-up to elections.
Four inmates killed in El Salvador prison riot
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Four inmates at a prison in El Salvador were murdered on Saturday amid a fight between inmates, the national prison service said via Twitter.
Venezuela first lady’s nephews confessed to drug scheme, U.S. says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady, who face charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, confessed to U.S. agents after being arrested in November to being involved in the drug scheme, newly-filed court recor…
Thai police charge two eight-year-old girls who tore down pink lists
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Two 8-year-old girls in Thailand have been charged for violating campaigning rules ahead of a contentious referendum next month after tearing voter lists off a wall because they liked the pink paper they were printed on, police said…
Veteran Mexican drug lord says he didn’t kill DEA agent
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero denied carrying out one of the most notorious murders in Mexico’s narco wars — the killing of U.S. anti-drugs agent Enrique “Kike” Camarena in 1985 — and said he was no longer involved in…
Munich gunman fixated on mass killing, had no Islamist ties
MUNICH (Reuters) – A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday.
Five killed, 12 injured in clash in southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Five people, including a local mayor, were killed in a confrontation on Saturday morning in a picturesque small town in southern Mexican state of Chiapas, a government official said.
Spy agencies struggle to spot threats from lone, mentally ill attackers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Recent attacks on civilians in the U.S. and Europe have exposed a gap in the intelligence community’s efforts to track suspected extremists and prevent mass killings, a half dozen American, British and French counterterrorism officials told Reuters.
Turkey’s Erdogan shuts schools, charities in first state of emergency decree
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan tightened his grip on Turkey on Saturday, ordering the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions in his first decree since imposing a state of emergency after the fail…
