Car bomb explodes in Syria’s Kobani near border, some people killed: YPG
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border gate on Thursday as Islamic State militants staged an attack from three sides of the town, a Kurdish YPG militia official told Reuters.
Lattes and Mars bars on sale at North Korea’s gleaming new airport terminal
SEOUL (Reuters) – Designer shirts, duty free watches and cosmetics, and chocolate fondue will soon await visitors to North Korea, according to photos of Pyongyang’s new airport terminal released by state media on Thursday.
Egypt’s imprisonment of journalists at all-time high: CPJ
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt is holding the highest number of journalists behind bars since record keeping began, using the pretext of national security to crack down on press freedoms, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday.
China says getting good global cooperation on graft fight
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has been getting good international cooperation in its campaign to return suspected corrupt officials who have fled abroad, including tip-offs from overseas and help from the media, the Communist Party’s graft watchdog said on…
China may increase penalties for illegal cults to life in prison
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China may extend the maximum sentence for people found guilty of cult-related crimes to life imprisonment from 15 years in jail, according to a draft amendment to the country’s criminal law reported by state media on Thursday.
Five Thai students detained in Pakistan return home
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Five Thai students detained in Pakistan for trying to board a plane with a pistol and ammunition have been freed and returned to Bangkok on Thursday, said Thailand’s foreign ministry.
Ex-Panama dictator Noriega asks for forgiveness
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Former dictator Manuel Noriega on Wednesday asked Panama to forgive the military leaders that ruled the Central American country for two decades before their eventual overthrow after a U.S. military invasion in 1989.
U.S., China stress positives, but fail to narrow differences
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China sought on Wednesday to stress the positives in their relationship after three days of high-level talks, but failed to narrow differences on the most contentious issues of cyber and maritime security.
Brazil lawmakers pass pension spending hike in blow to Rousseff
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a measure that would raise pension expenditures in coming years, in another surprise defeat for President Dilma Rousseff who is struggling to shore up the government’s finances…
Drug-resistant bacteria lurk in crowded Afghan war clinic
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A frontline hospital in Afghanistan already stretched by rising war casualties is facing another, invisible danger that is only beginning to come to light: highly contagious strains of drug-resistant bacteria which are m…
