Turkey, Lebanon restart Baghdad flights after shooting, Gulf waits
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Turkish Airlines and Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA) resumed flights to Baghdad on Thursday after halting them earlier in the week when bullets hit a plane as it was landing in the Iraqi capital.
French co-pilot flying AirAsia jet before crash: investigators
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The French first officer of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed into the sea last month was at the controls just before the accident, Indonesia’s lead investigator said on Thursday.
U.N. says plans future Libya talks within country
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s warring factions who operate rival governments have agreed “in principle” to hold future talks to end the crisis in Libya, moving the negotiations away from Geneva, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Suspected al Qaeda gunmen kill two soldiers in Yemen’s oil province
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Two Yemeni soldiers were killed and two wounded when they were ambushed while on patrol by suspected al Qaeda militants in the central province of Marib, a regional official said on Thursday.
Sudan rebels to free Bulgarian aid workers this week: air carrier
SOFIA (Reuters) – Six Bulgarian aid workers detained by Sudanese rebels after their helicopter made an emergency landing in a war-torn part of Sudan are expected to be freed on Thursday or Friday at the latest, the aircraft’s operator said.
About 40 migrants missing off Bangladesh after their boats sinks
DHAKA (Reuters) – About 40 illegal migrants heading from Bangladesh to Malaysia to look for work were missing on Thursday after their boat sank, police said.
China to widen anti-graft inspections of armed forces
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s powerful Central Military Commission will widen anti-graft inspections of the country’s armed forces, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, as part of Beijing’s sweeping campaign to weed out corruption.
Israel says Hezbollah not interested in escalating violence
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday it received a message from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that it was backing away from further violence, a day after the worst deadly clashes in years erupted along the border.
Survivors say Iraqi forces watched as Shi’ite militias executed 72 Sunnis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Survivors tell the same story: they were taken from their homes by men in uniform; heads down and linked together, then led in small groups to a field, made to kneel, and selected to be shot one by one.
In France’s suburbs, state neglect breeds resentment
AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France (Reuters) – Soul-searching in France in the weeks since Islamist gunmen killed 17 people has centred on battling radical Islam and reinforcing the country’s secular tradition. In the “cités”, housing estates like those in which the gunmen grew up, this seems to many like seeking a scapegoat for decades of neglect.
