Riot over refugees in eastern German town leaves 31 police hurt
BERLIN (Reuters) – At least 31 German police officers were hurt in scuffles with about 600 protesters, many hurling bottles and stones, angry about the arrival of asylum seekers in an eastern German town in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
Military pressure on Ukraine will last decades, president says
KIEV (Reuters) – Military pressure on Ukraine from Russia and the separatists that Moscow supports is likely to last decades and future generations will have to undergo military training, President Petro Poroshenko said on Saturday.
Turkish army captain killed in clashes with Kurdish militants
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles killed a Turkish army captain in an attack on a military outpost in the southeast late on Friday, the latest in clashes which have brought a peace process t…
Typhoon death toll in Philippines rises to nine
MANILA (Reuters) – The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Goni rose to nine after five more people were buried by landslides in mountainous areas, officials said on Saturday.
Bomb hits intelligence building in Yemen’s Aden, no casualties
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Several bombs exploded outside a building used by the intelligence services in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Saturday, causing fires to break out but no casualties, a local official said.
Car bomb ‘kills many’ at Somali military training base
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suicide car bomb was rammed into a military training base in the Somali port city of Kismayu on Saturday, killing “many soldiers”, officials said.
Egyptian Brotherhood leader handed sixth life prison sentence: judicial sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and several other prominent Islamists were sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for murder and inciting violence, judicial sources said, part of an ongoing crackdown on the outlawed …
Malaysian anti-graft agency seeks three in probe of former unit of 1MDB
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s anti-graft agency on Saturday summoned three businessman to appear before it in an investigation of energy firm SRC International Sdn Bhd, a former unit of troubled state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1M…
China’s traffic police on alert after chemical blasts: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese traffic police are on high alert nationwide for dangerous chemicals, ten days after a warehouse exploded in the country’s northeast, state media said on Saturday.
Pol Pot’s sister-in-law, indicted for genocide in Cambodia, dies
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Ieng Thirith, the sister-in-law of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, died on Saturday, nearly five years after she was indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, Cambodia’s U.N.-backed war crimes court said.
