Hong Kong leader says has raised missing case of missing booksellers with Beijing
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said on Wednesday that he placed a great deal of emphasis on the case of a missing bookseller and has raised the issue with mainland authorities.
Moscow confirms Russians detained in Turkey over Islamic State links: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Consulate General in Turkish city of Antalya confirmed that three Russians had been detained over suspected connection to the Islamic State, state news agency RIA reported on Wednesday.
Belgium identifies three Paris attack plot safe houses
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A number of the Paris attackers used two apartments and a house in Belgium as possible safe houses in the weeks in leading up to their coordinated shooting and suicide bomb assault on the French capital, investigators said on Wedne…
Hollande’s pro-business reforms could falter ahead of France’s 2017 election
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande’s surprise conversion to business-friendly economic reforms 18 months after winning power on a “tax the rich” platform is at risk of running out of steam ahead of elections next year.
Search for missing Malaysian jet finds second 19th Century shipwreck
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Indian Ocean has turned up the second centuries-old shipwreck but no sign of the aircraft which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew nearly two years ago, searchers said on …
Antarctic helicopter pilot dies after falling into a crevasse
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A Canadian helicopter pilot has died after falling into a crevasse on a remote ice shelf in Antarctica while refueling a depot, the Australian Antarctic Division said on Wednesday.
Some China tourists eager to see free-wheeling democracy in action in Taiwan
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The number of mainland Chinese tourists to neighboring Taiwan halved in the weeks before this weekend’s elections, several Taipei-based travel agencies said, as Communist Party rulers in Beijing discouraged visits to China’s diplomat…
No concrete clues of ‘attack targets’ in Germany after Istanbul bomb: minister
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday that the security situation in Germany had not changed after a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, mainly German tourists, in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Iran central bank takes Beirut bombing case to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration, often at odds over Iran policy, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let the families of Americans killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barrack…
United States criticizes St Lucia over alleged extra-judicial deaths
CASTRIES, ST. LUCIA (Reuters) – The United States criticized the government of the Caribbean island nation St Lucia on Tuesday for failing to prosecute police accused of keeping death-lists and killing suspected criminals during a misguided campaign to…
