Law unto itself: Thai junta fuels doubt by churning out legislation
BANGKOK (Reuters) – It usually meets just twice a week, and many of its 220 members have little or no experience of making laws. But that hasn’t slowed down Thailand’s interim parliament, which was installed by the military junta that seized power last…
Kidnapped Iranian diplomat held in Yemen since 2013 freed
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian diplomat held hostage in Yemen since 2013 returned home to Tehran on Thursday amid conflicting accounts of how he was freed from his unidentified abductors.
Forensics show Argentine prosecutor was murdered: ex-wife
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Forensic tests on the body of an Argentine state prosecutor who died days after accusing President Cristina Fernandez of plotting to cover up Iran’s alleged role in a 1994 bombing indicate that he was murdered, his ex-wife said…
Lesotho looks to hold on to peace after early elections
MASERU (Reuters) – South African deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa said Lesotho should form a government promptly after weekend polls and push ahead with constitutional and security reform to avoid a recurrence of instability.
No new U.S.-led coalition strikes in Syria’s Idlib province
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition has not carried out airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib in the past 24 hours, a spokesman said on Thursday, following news of a blast that targeted senior members of al Qaeda’s official Syr…
South Sudan peace talks to go on until Friday
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels will extend beyond a Thursday deadline set by mediators to allow them to finalize details on power sharing, mediators from the regional East African group IGAD said.
Dozens killed in suspected Boko Haram attack in north Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 45 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram militants at dawn on Tuesday in a remote village of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, military sources and authorized vigilante groups told Reuters.
Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert underwent two-and-a-half hours of surgery after he was slashed in the face by a Korean nationalist in an attack at a breakfast forum in Seoul on Thursday to discuss Korean reunification.
Exclusive: Bar South Sudan leaders from transition – inquiry draft
UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A much-anticipated African Union inquiry calls for South Sudan’s president and his rival to be barred from a transitional government and for the oil-producing country to effectively be placed under AU control, say…
Lawyer says client in Canada train terror plot was running a con
TORONTO (Reuters) – One of the men accused of plotting to derail a passenger train between Toronto and New York was a con man who pretended to be an Islamic extremist for his own financial gain, his defense lawyer told a court on Thursday.
