China angered after U.S. fighter jets land in Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry expressed anger on Thursday after two U.S. fighter jets landed in Taiwan, in a rare official contact between the militaries of the United States and the self-ruled democratic island.
New Pakistani military courts sentence six to death
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s new military courts have sentenced six men to death for involvement in terrorism and a seventh to life imprisonment, the military spokesman said on Thursday.
British student who joined Islamic State wants to go home: Turkish MP
ANKARA (Reuters) – A 19-year-old British woman, one of a group of medical students that includes seven Britons, an American and a Canadian thought to have traveled to join the Islamic State group, has told her family she wants to go home, a Turkish law…
Iranian-British woman pardoned for Tehran volleyball protest
LONDON (Reuters) – An Iranian-British woman, jailed in Tehran last year for taking part in a protest against a ban on women attending some men’s sporting events, has been pardoned, Britain’s Foreign Office said on Thursday.
Buhari win means Nigeria, not Chad, to lead Boko Haram fight
DAKAR (Reuters) – When Chadian troops occupied parts of northern Nigeria in the 1980s, Nigerian Major-General Muhammadu Buhari chased them back across the border in a show of strength months before he seized power in a military coup.
West losing influence in Congo at political crossroads
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The expiry of Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s second mandate next year, a crucial test of governance, risks exposing the limitations of Western donors trying to promote democracy and transparency in return for the billions they…
France’s Le Pen angry at father for defending ‘gas chamber’ comment
PARIS (Reuters) – Tensions between French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie worsened on Thursday as the 86-year-old founder of the far-right party defended having described Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history”.
At least 56 killed as Russian trawler sinks in icy seas
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian trawler sank in icy seas off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Thursday, killing at least 56 of the 132 crew, the emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
Pakistan PM approves deal to buy eight Chinese submarines: official
ISLAMABAD/BEIJING (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved a deal “years in the making” to buy eight submarines from China, a Pakistani government official said on Thursday, in what could be one of China’s largest overseas weapons…
Exclusive: Lithuania prosecutors restart investigation into CIA jail
VILNIUS/WARSAW (Reuters) – Lithuania has restarted a criminal investigation into allegations that state security officials helped the CIA operate a secret jail in the Baltic state, the prosecutor-general’s office said on Thursday.
