China says U.S. ‘militarizing’ South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Defence Ministry on Thursday accused the United States of “militarizing” the South China Sea by staging patrols and joint military drills there, ramping up the rhetoric ahead of a key regional security meeting in Malaysia ne…
Greek PM suggests party referendum to overcome split in Syriza
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday called for his Syriza party to hold an emergency congress next month to overcome divisions but said a snap party referendum would be acceptable if leftist dissenters wanted a quicker so…
African hunting dreams collide with Cecil the lion protests
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Hunters longing to shoot big game in the African wild may choose a different target after public backlash against a Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion just outside a national wildlife preserve.
Nigeria, Cameroon vow to step up cooperation against Boko Haram
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – The leaders of Nigeria and Cameroon pledged on Thursday to improve the exchange of intelligence and security cooperation along their border in a bid to tackle Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Drone kills four suspected militants in Yemen: residents
ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) – An attack by an unmanned aircraft on a car in southern Yemen overnight killed four suspected al Qaeda militants, residents and local officials said on Thursday.
Climate pressures lead to rise in ‘new-age orphans’ in India’s delta
SANDESHKHALI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eleven-year old Srijita Bhangi sits in the waiting room of the jetty boat that connects her island home in Khulna to the mainland Sundarbans, near India’s border with Bangladesh.
A Hungarian fence creates new front in Europe’s migrant crisis
SUBOTICA, Serbia (Reuters) – Swifts darted in and out of nesting holes in the scrubland around an old brick factory in northern Serbia. In the shade of the trees, Syrians and Afghans rested amid the rubbish of those who came before them, waiting for ni…
Turkish PM says coalition talks with main opposition CHP still at early stage
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday that potential coalition talks with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were still at an early stage and that negotiations would continue this week.
Cairo hearing in Al Jazeera journalists’ retrial adjourned: Al Jazeera
CAIRO (Reuters) – A Cairo court session which had been expected to deliver a verdict on Thursday in the retrial of Al Jazeera television journalists has been adjourned, Al Jazeera said on its Twitter feed.
Taipei mayor won’t publicly back ‘One China’, Shanghai forum at risk
TAIPEI (Reuters) – An annual forum between the mayors of Shanghai and Taipei might not take place as scheduled this year because the mayor of the Taiwan capital will not publicly endorse Beijing’s “One China” principle.
