Swedish airport evacuated after suspicious powder found in bag
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – An airport near Stockholm was evacuated on Sunday after staff found a suspicious powder in a bag that had been checked in for a flight, officials said.
Four-country talks on Taliban to begin in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are set to begin talks on Monday aimed at restarting the Afghan peace process and eventually ending 14 years of bloodshed fighting the Taliban insurgents.
U.S. carries out drone strike in eastern Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – The United States conducted a drone strike in Afghanistan last week but a spokesman declined to confirm reports it had killed as many as 20 Islamic State (ISIS) militants in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Pakistan tells U.S. that India attack probe will ‘bring out the truth’
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry his country is swiftly investigating who was behind last week’s attack on an Indian air force base, and that it would “bring out the truth”.
China arrests four labor activists amid crackdown: lawyers
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has formally arrested four labor activists who have helped workers fight for their rights, lawyers for two of them said on Sunday, as the government steps up a crackdown on activists pressing for change within the system.
U.S. releases video it says shows Iranian rockets near American warships
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy released black-and-white video on Saturday it said was taken by an American helicopter showing an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel firing unguided rockets on Dec. 26 near warships including the aircraft carrier U…
Japan PM aims for constitutional revision with help from opposition
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday he aimed to get a two-thirds majority from his ruling bloc and like-minded opposition parties at an upper house election this summer to enable him to revise the constitution.
Hong Kong publishers spooked, anti-China books off shelves
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong publishers and vendors of books on Chinese politics that are banned in China are unnerved by the mysterious disappearances of five booksellers, and in some cases pulling books critical of Beijing’s leaders from their she…
In humiliation, Argentina says manhunt still on for fugitives
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – President Mauricio Macri was humiliated on Saturday after Argentina’s federal police chief admitted a manhunt was still on for two of the South American country’s most notorious criminals, hours after the government celebrated …
Anti-migrant protest turns violent as German welcome cools
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – Riot police broke up far-right protesters in Cologne on Saturday as they marched against Germany’s open-door migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year’s Eve.
