Britain and Ireland call for talks to calm Northern Ireland crisis
BELFAST/DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain and Ireland sought to calm Northern Ireland’s political crisis on Friday by urging Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists to preserve a power-sharing government that ended decades of sectarian violence.
India convicts 12 over 2006 Mumbai train blasts
MUMBAI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Friday convicted 12 men of planning several blasts on crowded commuter trains in the financial capital of Mumbai in 2006, which killed more than 180 people and wounded hundreds.
Expert says no DNA link to weapon in Britons’ Thai island murder: lawyer
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Independent forensics tests on a garden hoe Thai police believe was used to kill two British backpackers on a holiday island show no matches to the DNA of two Myanmar migrant workers accused of their murder, their lawyer said on Fri…
At least four killed in attack on Burundi army chief: media
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least four people were killed on Friday when unknown gunmen ambushed the Burundian army’s chief of staff in a failed assassination attempt in the capital Bujumbura, local media and a morgue source said.
China says its citizen likely kidnapped by Islamic State
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a Chinese national reported as being held hostage by Islamic State insurgents appears to be one of its missing citizens.
More Japanese rivers overflow bringing further floods, 23 missing
JOSO, Japan (Reuters) – Floods that swept houses off foundations and crushed them under landslides spread across Japan on Friday as more rivers burst their banks, leaving at least 23 people missing and forcing more than 100,000 to flee.
Iran’s foreign minister to visit China to discuss nuclear deal
BEIJING (Reuters) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Beijing next week to discuss Iran’s nuclear agreement and efforts to boost ties with China, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
Bangkok bomb plotter ‘flew to China’, Malaysia lead goes nowhere
BANGKOK/DHAKA (Reuters) – The suspected mastermind of last month’s deadly bomb attack in Thailand left for China from Bangladesh 12 days ago, and efforts in Malaysia to track the man suspected of planting the explosives have been unsuccessful, Thai pol…
Indonesia sending thousands of troops to fight smog-causing fires
PADAMARAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia said on Friday it will send more than 10,000 troops to fight fires in southern Sumatra, as smoke makes thousands sick, delays flights and pushes air quality to unhealthy levels in neighboring Singapore and Mal…
Thai PM vents fury at critics, threatens ‘attitude adjustment’
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha lashed out on Friday at critics of his military government and threatened to use an “attitude adjustment” detention program on anyone who speaks out against the junta.
