Bahrain court sentences 29 people to 5-25 years jail for 2014 explosion: BNA
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain’s High Criminal Court has sentenced 29 people to jail terms ranging from five to 25 years for detonating an explosive device intended to kill policemen in 2014, state news agency Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported on Wednesday…
China, Taiwan open first hotline in tension reducing measure
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China and Taiwan began operating the first telephone hotline between the two nations on Wednesday, set up as a confidence building and tension reducing measure, with senior officials exchanging New Year’s greetings.
China’s Xi tells top leaders to watch families amid graft fight
BEIJING (Reuters) – Senior Chinese leaders need to “strictly educate and supervise” their children and family members and not rest of their laurels amid an on-going fight against corruption, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of an elite Communist Par…
Islamic State’s persecution of Yazidis is genocide: Clinton
(Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East is genocide.
Exclusive: Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captu…
Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired rockets near U.S. warships in Gulf: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf on Saturday, giving only brief notice in a “highly provocative” act, a U.S. military s…
Top aide to North Korea leader Kim Jong Un dies in car crash: KCNA
SEOUL (Reuters) – A senior North Korean ruling party official and a top aide to leader Kim Jong Un has died in a car accident, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, in the latest event to hit the close circle of deputies of the country’s leader….
Central African Republic to vote in election to restore democracy
BANGUI (Reuters) – Central African Republic votes in a presidential election on Wednesday aimed at restoring democratic rule in a divided country gripped by years of violence in which thousands have died.
France calls for EU crackdown on fake Syrian passports
PARIS (Reuters) – France has asked the European Union to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe after two of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks were found carrying such passports.
Georgia, with eye on 2016 election, switches prime minister
TBILISI (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Georgia voted on Tuesday to approve Georgy Kvirikashvili as the ex-Soviet state’s new prime minister, an appointment widely seen as an attempt to boost the ruling coalition’s flagging popularity amid an economic slump.
