German foreign minister says common EU path is only way to tackle migrant crisis
ATHENS (Reuters) – European Union countries must work together to deal with the migrant crisis troubling the bloc and avoid blaming each other, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Greek daily Ta Nea in an interview on Monday.
India, U.S. closer to pact to share military logistics: officials
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – India and the United States are closing in on an agreement to share military logistics after 12 years of talks, officials said, a sign of strengthening defense ties between the countries as China becomes increasingly as…
Ten children stabbed outside school gate in southern China
BEIJING (Reuters) – A knife-wielding attacker stabbed ten school children in southern China on Monday, severely injuring two, before killing himself, state media reported, the latest in a series of school attacks in the country.
Former Tepco execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster
TOKYO (Reuters) – Three former Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) executives were indicted on Monday for failing to take safety measures to prevent the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, a Tokyo District Court official said.
Children sacrificed to bring luck in Uganda elections: charity
KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Six cases of the mutilation and murder of children as “good luck” sacrifices were reported during the recent Ugandan elections, a children’s charity said.
Pakistan hangs man who killed governor over call to reform blasphemy law
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan on Monday executed a man who killed the governor of Punjab province over his call to reform strict blasphemy laws that carry a death sentence for insulting Islam.
EU’s Tower of Babel may fall while leaders distracted
PARIS (Reuters) – It’s little wonder the European Union can’t find common solutions to Europe’s urgent problems when its main members are having such different national conversations.
Indonesia demolishes capital’s largest red-light district
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Bulldozers started demolishing hundreds of buildings in the Indonesian capital’s largest red-light district on Monday as part of a nationwide effort to eradicate prostitution in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
Twin suicide bombing kills 70 in Baghdad’s deadliest attack this year
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A twin suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 70 people in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad on Sunday in the deadliest attack inside the capital this year, as militants launched an assault on its western outskirts.
China to prosecute two senior officials from Xinjiang over graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled two senior officials in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang for corruption and transferred them to prosecutors, an anti-graft watchdog said.
