Egypt interior ministry says ‘terrorist attack’ foiled, two attackers killed
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces foiled a “terrorist attack” in Luxor on Wednesday, killing two attackers and wounding a third, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page.
As Suu Kyi visits, China says own laureate won’t be released
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has no reason to change the verdict against jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, the government said on Wednesday, as Liu’s fellow laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived for her first visit to C…
No tourists injured at Egypt’s Karnak temple attack: state news
CAIRO (Reuters) – No tourists were injured in an attack on the Karnak temple tourist site in southern Egypt on Wednesday, a senior Interior Ministry security source told state news agency MENA.
Family of Brazilian shot dead by UK police take case to European court
LONDON (Reuters) – The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician shot dead 10 years ago by London police who thought he was a suicide bomber, will launch a bid at a European Court on Wednesday to demand the officers involved face crimi…
WHO team urges South Korea to reopen schools as more close in MERS crisis
SEOUL (Reuters) – A joint South Korean-World Health Organization mission studying an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) recommended on Wednesday that schools be reopened, as they were unlikely to spread the disease, just as school boar…
China ‘astonished’ at U.S. criticism on nonproliferation
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it was astonished by a U.S. State Department report which raised worries about the Chinese commitment to nonproliferation.
Obama weighs sending several hundred more U.S. troops to Iraq: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is considering setting up a new military base in Iraq’s Anbar province and is closing in on a decision to send several hundred more trainers and advisers to help Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic …
UK’s Cameron comes under fresh pressure from own party over EU referendum
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday came under fresh pressure to allow his own lawmakers and ministers to vote according to their consciences in a planned in-out referendum on European Union membership.
Push for quality education, decent jobs needed to end child labor
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Almost 170 million youth are trapped in child labor, deprived of education and facing a life without decent jobs, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.
Thai police to wrap up human trafficking investigation by June
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police said on Wednesday they were winding down an investigation into human trafficking gangs, and planned to send a report of their findings to the country’s attorney general by the end of June.
