Kurdish footballer leaves Turkey after attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An Alevi Kurdish footballer in Turkey’s top league has left the country after a racist attack apparently motivated by his support on social media for Kurds fighting to defend a Syrian border town from Islamic State militants.
Senior Myanmar officials guilty of war crimes, Harvard report says
YANGON (Reuters) – An independent investigation by the Harvard Law School has found that troops commanded by Myanmar’s powerful interior minister and two other senior officials tortured and killed civilians over six years ago while fighting an ethnic r…
Uncurbed sectarianism prompted village attack say Saudi Shi’ites
Al-Dalwah SAUDI ARABIA (Reuters) – On Monday Sunni militants attacked a Shi’ite Muslim village in Saudi Arabia and left eight people dead. By Wednesday, grief among the villagers was mixed with anger about a culture of sectarianism they say paved the w…
Police investigate English town’s plans to burn effigy of Scot’s leader
LONDON (Reuters) – Police are investigating plans to burn an effigy of defeated Scottish nationalist leader Alex Salmond at bonfire night celebrations in a southern English town after complaints of racism.
NATO chief vows no loss of gains in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday reaffirmed the alliance’s commitment to stabilizing Afghanistan and ensuring that the gains made are preserved after the foreign combat mission ends in 2014.
Boko Haram steals dynamite in raid on Lafarge Nigeria plant: sources
DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants raided a cement factory owned by Lafarge subsidiary Ashaka Cement and seized dynamite from a quarry, witnesses and a security source said on Thursday.
Pakistani police officer axes man to death over blasphemy
LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) – A policeman in Pakistan hacked a man to death for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, police said, just two days after a Christian couple was lynched over blasphemy in the same p…
Hollande popularity plumbs new low in mid-term French poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Half-way into his five-year mandate the popularity of French President Francois Hollande hit a new low on Thursday, hours before the Socialist leader addresses the nation to defend his shaky record on the economy.
HK students seek intermediary to arrange Beijing trip
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A leader of Hong Kong’s student protests called on Thursday for a respected intermediary to help arrange a trip to Beijing where the students want to make their case to China’s leaders for greater democracy in their city.
China on best behavior for APEC, but guests may not be
BEIJING (Reuters) – From territorial disputes with neighbors to rivalry with the United States, China is setting aside some of its biggest foreign policy challenges to prevent discord at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders that it hosts next week.
