Gunmen kill 19 bus passengers in Pakistan attack
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 19 passengers they had forced off buses traveling from the western Pakistani city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, said the home minister for the restive province of Baluchistan, where the …
Fighters battle Houthis in Yemen’s southern city of Aden
ADEN (Reuters) – Heavy fighting erupted in southern Yemen near Aden airport on Friday when local militia attacked Shi’ite Houthi rebels in a push to drive them from the district, residents and fighters said.
Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed – sources
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons program five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign.
McCain seeks defense funding to help Asia against China challenges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading U.S. senator has proposed that the United States provide hundreds of millions of dollars to help train and equip the armed forces of Southeast Asian countries faced with Chinese territorial challenges.
Twin bombs in Nigeria’s Borno state kill seven and injure 12
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – At least seven people died and 12 were injured when twin bomb blasts by suspected Boko Haram militants struck a wedding party in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Friday, locals said.
New Nigerian president seeks to crush ‘godless’ Boko Haram
ABUJA (Reuters) – New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Friday to eradicate the “mindless, godless” militants of Boko Haram and rescue hundreds of women and children held captive, including 200 girls taken from the town of Chibok a year a…
Cameroon food stocks dwindle as Boko Haram violence disrupts farming
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Food shortages threaten some 200,000 people in northern Cameroon after cross-border raids by Islamist sect Boko Haram forced people to flee their homes and fields, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Video purports to show Turkish intelligence shipping arms to Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish newspaper published video footage on Friday which it said showed security forces discovering weapons parts being sent to Syria on trucks belonging to the MIT state intelligence agency.
SE Asia vows to rescue ‘boat people’; Myanmar seizes migrant vessel
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Southeast Asian nations agreed on Friday to intensify search and rescue efforts to help vulnerable “boat people” stranded in the region’s seas, as Myanmar said its navy had seized a vessel off its coast with more than 700 migrants a…
Explosions rock Burundi capital as deadly protests continue
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Two explosions shook Burundi’s capital on Friday but no one was hurt, police and a witness said, as deadly unrest against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term in office rumbled on.
