China’s Xi says to shake up military structure in reform push
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will shake up its military by establishing a joint operational command structure by 2020 and rejig existing military regions as part of overall reforms, President Xi Jinping said in a comments reported on Thursday.
China court upholds conviction against journalist but cuts two years off sentence
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court upheld a conviction on Thursday against a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website but reduced her jail sentence by two years in a case criticized by the West and rights…
After uproar, German town warms to refugees who took over church
OBERHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) – When Daniela Handwerk looked out of her window earlier this month and saw the church across the street being emptied out and turned into a refugee shelter, she panicked – and she was not alone.
Saudi Arabia imposes sanctions on at least 12 Hezbollah figures
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia imposed sanctions on at least 12 senior Hezbollah figures accused of responsibility for carrying out operations for the group, which it had designated a terrorist organization in March of last year, state media reported o…
Special Report: Egypt locks up lawyers in Islamist fight
CAIRO (Reuters) – (This October 22, 2015 story was refiled to correct the year of Sisi’s presidency in paragraph 10)
Operation in Syria kills person involved Beirut attacks: TV
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An operation in Syria launched by the Syrian army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah killed a person involved in the logistics of suicide bomb attacks in southern Beirut earlier this month, Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV and Syrian state media said …
South African court lifts 2009 ban on domestic rhino horn trade
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court has lifted a ban on the local trade in rhino horn imposed by the government in 2009 after finding that the state had not followed the process of public participation before imposing the moratorium, med…
Bangladesh says kills military chief of banned Islamist group
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh police commandos killed the suspected military chief of a banned Islamist group in a shootout in the capital, a police commissioner said on Thursday, as security forces step up a hunt for militants behind a spate of attacks…
Pakistani Baluch rebels release video of leader they say is alive
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Baluch separatist rebels in Pakistan released a video on Thursday purporting to show that leader Allah Nazar, who the Pakistani government believed it had killed in a raid in August, was alive and leading the insurgency.
Russia to help Cambodia build capacity for nuclear power
YEKATERINBURG, Russia/PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Russia will help Cambodia work towards building a nuclear power plant under an agreement the two countries signed this week, said Sergei Kirienko, the head of state nuclear firm Rosatom.
