Myanmar’s Suu Kyi campaigns in Rakhine, but to avoid trouble spots
THANDWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Rakhine State on Friday for three days of campaigning, but she will skip the state’s most restive areas where her opposition movement faces stiff competition from a powe…
Former Canada envoy to Iran who hid Americans in hostage crisis dies
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor, whose role in rescuing U.S. diplomats in a covert operation in 1979 during the Iran hostage crisis was featured in the movie “Argo”, died on Thursday, his son told CBC television. He was 81.
Syrian army and Russian jets target rebel towns north of Homs
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday, targeting a long-held and strategic enclave of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
Guinea President Conde on track to win election in first round
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinean President Alpha Conde was on track to win another term in office in the first round of voting in the country’s presidential election, results from the National Electoral Commission showed on Thursday.
U.S. ‘excessive force’ comment touches nerve in Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel bristled on Thursday at what it saw as U.S. suggestions it used excessive force following Palestinian stabbings, and published images to refute Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s allegation that a teen suspect had been “…
U.S., Scottish investigators have two new suspects in Lockerbie bombing
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scottish and U.S. investigators have identified two new Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie airline bombing almost 27 years ago which killed 270 people, authorities in the two countries said on Thursday.
U.N. says Iran meets deadline for investigation of nuclear past
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has met a deadline to give the U.N. nuclear watchdog information it needs to assess whether Tehran sought to develop nuclear weapons in the past, the agency said on Thursday, a step towards carrying out a deal between Tehran and…
Sweden could house tens of thousands refugees in tents: Migration Agency
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish authorities will start setting up camps for refugees next week, and tens of thousands could spend the Swedish winter in tents, the Migration Agency said on Thursday.
Four wounded in violence in Central African Republic capital
BANGUI (Reuters) – Four people were wounded in the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday when a mainly Christian militia group attacked the largely Muslim neighborhood of PK-5, a community leader said.
‘Await a letter in November’, Britain’s Cameron tells EU on renegotiation
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – David Cameron sought to defuse fellow EU leaders’ frustration over a lack of detail in his demand for new membership terms from the bloc by promising on Thursday to send them his wish-list in writing in early November.
