Twelve feared killed in Pakistani air ambulance helicopter crash
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani military helicopter being used as an air ambulance crashed near the northern district of Mansehra on Thursday, and the 12 people on board were feared dead, military officials said.
Puntland seeks resources as Somali militants enter its territory
GAROWE (Reuters) – Somalia’s Puntland region needs more help from the central government and the African Union to fight al Shabaab militants, especially equipment and ammunition, the president of the semi-autonomous region has said.
South African president defends failure to arrest Sudan’s Bashir
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma defended the decision to let Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir evade an arrest warrant and leave the country in June, saying on Thursday the wanted leader had had immunity as a guest of th…
‘Men need more sex than women’ so decriminalize UK sex trade, academic says
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Decriminalizing prostitution in Britain could reduce levels of rape and sexual assaults on women, a think tank said on Thursday, which described attempts to control the sex trade as ineffective and a waste of publi…
U.S. think tank: risk Iran might ‘sanitize’ Parchin before U.N. checks
VIENNA (Reuters) – A U.S. think tank says Iran might be cleaning up its Parchin military site, where some countries suspect experiments may have taken place in a possible atomic weapons program, but Iran denied this on Thursday.
Three Israelis injured in West Bank car ramming
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Three Israelis were deliberately run down and injured in the occupied West Bank on Thursday by a motorist who was then shot by Israeli troops, Israeli officials said.
Explosion in eastern Iraq cuts power line from Iran
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An explosion targeting a power installation in eastern Iraq has disrupted the flow of electricity from neighboring Iran, the electricity ministry said on Thursday, aggravating energy shortages amid a weeks-long heatwave.
Want to contest in village elections? Get a toilet, says Indian state
PATNA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Authorities in an east Indian state have made it mandatory for candidates contesting village elections to have a toilet in their home as part of a move to improve sanitation in the country, a senior official …
Container ships make slow return to Iran after nuke deal
LONDON (Reuters) – The first international container ships began arriving in Iran this week after the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, yet many ship owners remainf wary of resuming business until sanctions are removed – still some months a…
Egypt’s Sisi launches nationalist New Suez Canal celebration
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Nationalist celebrations to inaugurate a major extension of the Suez Canal intended to power an economic turnaround began on Thursday when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi boarded a historic yacht to welcome foreign d…
