Modi launches campaign to tackle India’s dwindling number of girls
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the blight of India’s dwindling number of girls on Thursday, launching a campaign to address the problem the United Nations has said amounts to a national emergency.
Thai junta caught between rock and hard place over ex-PM impeachment
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s army-stacked parliament will vote in an impeachment hearing against ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday, testing a fragile calm between the rural poor and the royalist establishment backed by the Bangkok m…
UK’s Prince Andrew makes first appearance since sex claims
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Andrew will make his first public appearance on Thursday since he was accused in court documents of having sex with an underage girl introduced to him by a disgraced U.S. financier.
Decades after Auschwitz, past horrors haunt a Polish town
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) – Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration cam…
Austria’s first trial of alleged Islamic State fighter starts
KREMS, Austria (Reuters) – A 30-year old Chechen who Austrian authorities accuse of fighting with Islamic State jihadists in Syria in 2013 and sending them money pleaded not guilty when the country’s first such trial opened on Thursday.
India, Russia advance arms talks days before Obama trip
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Russia have agreed to speed work on a fifth-generation military aircraft, Indian officials said on Thursday, in a vote of confidence in an old defense partner days before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to advance ti…
Murdoch’s Sun mocks critics with return of topless ‘Page Three girls’
LONDON (Reuters) – Just days after women’s rights campaigners celebrated the apparent disappearance of topless women from Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper, the British tabloid brought the feature back on Thursday and mocked its critics.
German police arrest two suspected members of Islamic State
BERLIN (Reuters) – Police have arrested two German men suspected of being members of insurgent group Islamic State, the federal public prosecutors office said on Thursday.
Indonesia rejects clemency for two of Australian ‘Bali Nine’ drug offenders
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia on Thursday rejected pleas for clemency for two Australians convicted of drug offences and is expected to go ahead with their executions, a move bound to strain already fragile ties between the two countries.
Egypt’s high court orders re-trial of policemen linked to 37 deaths
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s highest appeals court ordered a re-trial on Thursday for four policemen in connection with the deaths of 37 people during political violence after President Mohamed Mursi’s ouster, the judge said.
