China court sentences 12 to death for Xinjiang attacks
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in the unruly far western Chinese region of Xinjiang sentenced 12 people to death and handed out dozens of other heavy sentences on Monday for attacks in July in which almost 100 people died.
Afghan officials say air strike killed civilians, NATO says ‘enemy’
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan official said a NATO air strike killed seven civilians in the country’s east, including a nine-year-old child, but the international coalition said on Monday the strike killed eight militants who had fired on its forces.
U.S. warships stay in Philippines amid transgender murder probe
MANILA (Reuters) – The commander of U.S. Pacific Command has stopped two of its warships from leaving the Philippines after a U.S. Marine was named as a suspect in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, a Philippine official said on Mond…
Bomb hits Somali police car day after deadly cafe attack
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A bomb tore through a senior policeman’s car in Somalia’s capital on Monday, a day after suspected Islamist militants shelled an area where the president was due to speak and attacked a city center cafe, witnesses and officials sa…
Ruling party set to win Mozambique polls despite anger over inequality
MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party and its presidential candidate look likely to win elections this week despite voters’ dissatisfaction with graft and inequality in one of Africa’s fastest growing economies that boasts abundant energ…
China detains scholar, bans books in crackdown on moderate voices
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United States two years ago and has banned books by eight writers in an escalating crackdown on dissent.
Pistorius faces sentencing over girlfriend’s death
PRETORIA (Reuters) – Disgraced South African track star Oscar Pistorius arrived at the Pretoria High Court on Monday for a sentencing hearing that will determine whether he serves jail time for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, or walks out a fr…
Center-left PRG party threatens to quit French government
PARIS (Reuters) – The small center-left PRG (Radical Party of the Left) has threatened to quit France’s Socialist-led government unless a 2015 budget includes more concessions to a pressured middle class, putting at risk a fragile parliamentary majorit…
Did Israel’s ‘Hannibal directive’ lead to a war crime in Gaza?
KEREM SHALOM Israel/GAZA (Reuters) – The July-August war in Gaza drew international condemnation for a number of reasons, but one episode proved more deadly than any other: an Israeli air and artillery bombardment on Aug. 1 that killed 150 people in a …
U.S. raps Kyrgyzstan for proposed ‘gay propaganda’ law
ALMATY (Reuters) – The United States has condemned Kyrgyzstan for planning to adopt legislation to ban “gay propaganda”, saying the law discriminates and will hurt the Central Asian nation’s fragile civil society.
