Indonesian general gets No. 2 police job despite graft scandal
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Three-star general Budi Gunawan was quietly sworn in as Indonesia’s No. 2 police officer on Wednesday, two months after being dropped by the president for the top job due to his implication in a bribery scandal.
Turkey faces delicate battle against Islamic State sympathizers at home
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Defne Bayrak’s husband was a suicide bomber who killed CIA operatives in a 2009 attack in Afghanistan. Now, she is among the hundreds of Turks using social media to show support for Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq….
Asian, African nations challenge ‘obsolete’ world order
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Leaders of Asian and African nations called on Wednesday for a new global order that is open to emerging economic powers and leaves the “obsolete ideas” of Bretton Woods institutions in the past.
Drone with ‘minuscule’ quantity of radiation found on Japan PM’s office roof: media
TOKYO (Reuters) – A drone marked with a radioactive sign was found on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office on Wednesday and media said it tested positive for a “minuscule” amount of radiation.
Eleven held in South Africa in crackdown on anti-foreigner violence
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African authorities arrested 11 men in Johannesburg late on Tuesday suspected of involvement in violence against immigrants, local television news reported.
Special Report: How Denmark’s unexpected killer slipped through the net
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – On Valentine’s Day, two weeks after his release from prison, Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein walked up to a Copenhagen cafe hosting a debate on freedom of speech and sprayed it with bullets.
Turkey say Mursi sentencing increases concern about Egypt’s democracy
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey is very concerned by the sentencing of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi to 20 years in prison, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
South Korea sets plan to raise ‘corroded’ Sewol ferry year after disaster
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Wednesday it will raise the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them children, yielding to pressure from mourning families who have called for a deeper investigation into the dis…
Japan court approves restart of reactors in boost for Abe’s nuclear policy
KAGOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – A Japanese court has rejected a legal bid to block the reopening of the Sendai nuclear power station on safety grounds, removing one of the last big hurdles to switching reactors back on after the 2011 Fukushima crisis para…
S.Korea says reaches deal with U.S. to revise nuclear energy pact
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States reached a deal on Wednesday to revise a 40-year-old agreement that has limited South Korea’s ability to enrich uranium for nuclear power generation and to reprocess spent fuel, the foreign ministry in…
