Paris murder suspect faces trial as Kurdish tensions resurface
PARIS (Reuters) – A Turkish man suspected of murdering three Kurdish activists in Paris in 2013 is to face trial, putting the spotlight on a key rallying point for ethnic Kurds amid renewed violence in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast.
Pakistan military court sentences six to death in school massacre
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A secret military court in Pakistan sentenced six men to death after convicting them of involvement in the Taliban massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in Peshawar, the military said on Thursday.
Kerry voices concern to Russian counterpart on Ukraine fighting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed “grave concern” to his Russian counterpart on Thursday over a sharp rise in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and urged an immediate ceasefire, the State Department said.
Rights groups decry sentencing of leading Azeri activist
MOSCOW (Reuters) – New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) decried as politically motivated the sentencing of a leading rights activist in Azerbaijan on Thursday to 8-1/2 years in jail, saying it was part of a campaign to muzzle dissent.
Artist Ai Weiwei says China at ‘critical point’
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ructions in the Chinese stock market and currency suggest the country has reached a “critical point” where the absence of democratic freedoms is a growing threat to economic stability, Chinese artist and free-speech advocate Ai Weiwe…
North Korea will pursue ‘defensive’ nuclear program: envoy
GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea will pursue its “defensive” nuclear program as long as it feels threatened by the United States, its U.N. disarmament envoy in Geneva told Reuters on Thursday.
Bangladesh says arrests two Islamists over killing of secularist blogger
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh police said on Thursday they had arrested two members of a banned Islamist group for alleged involvement in the killing of a blogger, the latest attack on critics of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.
Floods force Argentine front-runner Scioli to cut short foreign trip
LUJAN, Argentina (Reuters) – Argentine ruling party presidential candidate Daniel Scioli cut short a trip to Italy for work on his prosthetic arm amid mounting criticism from rivals and voters over his handling of flooding that has forced thousands fro…
Kerry voices concern to Russian counterpart on Ukraine fighting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday expressed “gave concern” to his Russian counterpart about a sharp rise in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and urged an immediate cease-fire, the State Department said.
German historians dispute museum’s much higher Berlin Wall death toll
BERLIN (Reuters) – Several German historians on Thursday rejected the findings of a museum which said hundreds more people died trying to flee to West Berlin during the Cold War than previously thought, re-igniting a row rumbling on since the wall fell…
