Weather stalls search for AirAsia black boxes; first victim buried
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Heavy seas stopped divers reaching the possible wreck of an AirAsia Indonesia jet off Borneo on Thursday and an aviation official said it could be a week before the black box flight recorders are found.
Three Kenyan soldiers wounded in gun attack near Somali border
MOMBASA (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a truck carrying Kenyan soldiers near the border with Somalia on Thursday, seriously wounding three of them, police said, in an assault that bore the hallmarks of Somalia’s Islamist militant group al Shabaab.
Abbas trades stalemate for confrontation in ICC move
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet with Israel by signing onto the International Criminal Court.
U.S. concerned over detention of Bahraini opposition leader
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has expressed deep concern over the detention of Bahraini opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, warning that the arrest could lead to more tensions in the island kingdom.
Suicide bomber hits church in Nigeria’s Gombe, wounding eight
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe during a New Year service, wounding eight people, an official for Nigeria’s Red Cross told Reuters on Thursday.
Man with automatic weapon detained near Istanbul palace: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A man carrying an automatic weapon was detained near the Turkish prime minister’s office in Istanbul on Thursday after he threw a homemade bomb at police, local media reported.
Egyptian court orders retrial of Al Jazeera journalists
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s highest court has ordered a retrial of three jailed journalists working for Al Jazeera television, citing procedural flaws in last year’s trial, defense lawyers said on Thursday.
India PM replaces Soviet-style planning body, aiming to boost growth
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has scrapped its 65-year-old Planning Commission, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused of stifling growth with Soviet-style bureaucracy, replacing it on Thursday with a body he said would do more to involve the reg…
New Year’s Eve stampede kills 36 on Shanghai waterfront
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A stampede killed at least 36 people during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, but police denied reports it was caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city’s fa…
U.S., partners hit Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies staged 29 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Thursday.
