North Korean consular official in China kills two in car crash
BEIJING (Reuters) – A North Korean consular official in China has killed two people in a car crash, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, reporting the accident shortly after China came out in support of sanctions against its ally over its nuclear …
Breakaway Taliban group denies its leader detained in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban is leading his fighters in Afghanistan, his deputy said on Tuesday, contradicting three senior members of the Islamist group and denying a newspaper report that he had been detained…
Thai charter drafters say they accept some contentious junta points
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s constitution drafters said on Tuesday they had accepted proposals from the ruling junta that critics say are designed to prolong the military’s hold on power.
530 killed in areas covered by Syria truce in first 23 days
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A total of 530 people were killed in the first 23 days of a truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
Turkish soldier killed in Kurdish militant bomb attack: military
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A Turkish soldier was killed in a bomb attack early on Tuesday in a town near the Syrian border, the scene of days of fighting with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, the army said.
Australia arrests two suspected of Islamic State financing: police
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police said on Tuesday they had arrested two people, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of raising funds to support operations of the Islamic State militant group.
China lodges protest with Japan over new text books
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Tuesday it had lodged a formal protest with Japan over new Japanese school text books which it said distorted the history of Japanese atrocities in China and reasserted a Japanese claim to a group of disputed islands.
Gunmen attack EU military mission HQ in Mali; one attacker killed
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission’s personnel.
From poetry-lover to genocide suspect, Karadzic faces verdict
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Radovan Karadzic saw himself as locked in a David and Goliath struggle to save the Serbs even as their forces were reducing the besieged city of Sarajevo to rubble.
We can’t pay: Zimbabwe farmers resist compensating evicted white landowners
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers expected to stump up the cash say they don’t have it.
