Sabotage suspected as Pakistan troop train plunges into canal, killing 12
LAHORE, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A train carrying hundreds of Pakistan military personnel and their families plunged into a canal on Thursday, killing 12 soldiers, when a bridge collapsed in what the army suspects was sabotage, officials said.
British woman charged with being member of Islamic State
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said on Thursday they had charged a 26-year-old woman with being a member of Islamic State and inciting terrorism on social media.
Tanzania gives free land to coax flood victims from disaster zones
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The short video that Matilda Kasele plays on her phone shows water rushing into her house, submerging all her belongings.
‘Wow, pulled back wrong throttle:’ captain of crashed TransAsia plane
TAIPEI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The pilot flying a TransAsia Airways ATR mistakenly switched off the plane’s only working engine seconds before it crashed in February, killing 43 people, Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council (ASC) said in its latest report on …
Ugandan opposition accuse police of intimidation after supporter shot
KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan police officer opened fire at an opposition rally injuring one person, police and opposition said, prompting critics to accuse the government of using violence to intimidate rivals ahead of next year’s presidential vote.
HIV stigma, fear linger in UK as infection rates continue to rise
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rich paces the cramped, dimly-lit living room in despair, fearful of losing his friends, family and career as he struggles with the realization that he has HIV.
Iran wages media onslaught against Saudis over Yemen war
DUBAI (Reuters) – Cut off from Yemen and its allies there by a Saudi-led military campaign, Iran has intensified a media counter-offensive against Riyadh, accusing its regional rival of inflicting catastrophic suffering while presenting itself as a bla…
Bangladesh arrests 12 suspected al Qaeda militants, weapons found
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh security forces have arrested 12 suspected militants, including the chief of the al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which claimed responsibility for two killings this year of bloggers critical of religious extremism.
Images show Chinese airstrip on man-made Spratly island nearly finished
(Reuters) – China has almost finished building a 3,000-meter-long (10,000-foot) airstrip on one of its artificial islands in the disputed Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, new satellite photographs of the area show.
Indonesia to call off search for victims in deadly military plane crash
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities will call off a two-day search for victims on Thursday after a military transport plane crashed into a residential area in Sumatra, killing around 140 people, the military said.
