Japan shouldn’t cave to foreign pressure on PM war anniversary remarks: aide
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan should not let foreign countries make diplomatic capital out of its wartime past, an aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, as the author of a landmark 1995 apology urged Abe not to backtrack as it marks the 70th an…
Zimbabwean men in court over killing of Cecil the lion
HWANGE, Zimbabwe, (Reuters) – Two Zimbabwean men who were paid $50,000 by an American hunter who killed ‘Cecil’, the country’s best-known lion, arrived in court on Wednesday facing charges of poaching.
Special Report: Ukraine struggles to control maverick battalions
KIEV (Reuters) – From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight rebels in the east. A burly man with a long, Cossack-style moustache, Korchynsky has several hundred arm…
U.S., Turkey weigh which Syrian rebels to support in border area
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Turkey have not yet agreed which Syrian rebels they will support in a joint effort to help clear Islamic State from an area along the Turkish border, officials said on Tuesday, underscoring uncertainty surro…
Saudi soldier killed in shooting in eastern district: SPA
DUBAI (Reuters) – Unidentified assailants shot dead a Saudi Arabian soldier in the Kingdom’s eastern district of Qatif, the official SPA news agency quoted a police spokesperson as saying on Wednesday.
Gaza destruction comes under forensic lens in Amnesty report
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – About two weeks into last year’s conflict in Gaza, Palestinian photographer Jehad Saftawi began to tire of venturing into the city every day to take images of the wreckage.
China says recovered 38.7 billion yuan in graft losses
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has recovered 38.7 billion yuan ($6.2 billion) in losses from graft, state media reported, as the leadership pursues a campaign against pervasive corruption.
Merkel’s Bavarian ally says Grexit would cause ‘utter chaos’
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Greek exit from the euro zone would cause “utter chaos” but would have to be accepted if Athens was not willing to implement reforms, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer told German newspaper Die Welt on Wednesd…
Pakistan police say kill leader of banned sectarian group
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout after gunmen attacked a police convoy and freed him as he was being moved, police s…
Malaysian probe into fund scandal stalls after PM sacks deputy
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian parliamentary investigation into a graft scandal at a state investment fund embroiling Prime Minister Najib Razak has been put on hold as cracks in the long-ruling party appeared to widen on Wednesday.
