Anti-EU party set to win second UK parliament seat in blow to Cameron
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives risk losing a second British parliamentary seat to the anti-EU UKIP party on Thursday, foreshadowing a possible political upheaval in next year’s national election.
Israeli mayor imposes partial ban on Arab workers
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli mayor has imposed a partial ban on employing Arab workers in his city in a sign of mounting security concerns after a surge in deadly Palestinian attacks.
Three Thais detained for handing out tickets to Hunger Games
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Three Thai university students were taken into police custody on Thursday for handing out free tickets to the latest film in the Hunger Games series, from which Thai protesters have borrowed a gesture of resistance to a totalitarian…
Hungary’s Orban: we’ll choose our own path in ties with Russia
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, seen by some in Brussels and Washington as cozying up to the Kremlin, said his country would not be forced to pick one side or another in a Cold War-style standoff in Europe.
U.S. war planes strike Qaeda militants in Syrian border town: group
AMMAN (Reuters) – U.S. air strikes on a Syrian border town with Turkey killed at least two militants from Nusra Front, in the fourth such attack against the al Qaeda affiliate group since September, a monitoring group and Syrian activists said on Thurs…
Closing of Egypt’s Rafah crossing leaves thousands of Gazans stranded
RAFAH Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Egypt’s decision to shut its border with the Gaza Strip has stranded thousands of Palestinians on the Egyptian side of the border while around a thousand people in Gaza are desperate to get out for medical treatment in Egyp…
Duchess of Alba, the world’s most titled aristocrat, dies
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s 18th Duchess of Alba, who died on Thursday aged 88, was one of Europe’s wealthiest and most titled aristocrats, the owner of fabulous palaces and priceless works of art.
Former top China military officer hoarded cash, jade in basement: Phoenix
BEIJING (Reuters) – One of China’s most senior former military officers hoarded more than a ton of cash and precious jade in his basement, a Hong Kong magazine reported on Thursday, the latest details to emerge from the high-profile case amid Beijing’s…
Prominent China rights lawyer could face harsher charges: attorney
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese prosecutors could upgrade the charges against a prominent human rights lawyer, saying that he incited “ethnic hatred and discrimination” when he wrote a microblog post criticizing the government’s account of a mass knife att…
Thai fishermen convert boats to cash in on human-smuggling
RANONG Thailand (Reuters) – The smuggling of Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar is so lucrative that Thai fishermen are converting their boats to carry humans, police and officials in southern Thailand said.
