Syrian air strike kills 20 rebels on Lebanese border: sources
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian Air Force strike on the border with Lebanon killed around 20 Syrian rebel fighters on Friday, security sources said, in the latest spillover of violence into the area.
Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt to appeal: family
SYDNEY (Reuters) – (This story corrects headline to reflect single journalist; corrects paragraph one to show Peter Greste family said he will appeal; adds paragraphs 6 and 7 statement from Mohamed Fahmy’s brother that Fahmy has not yet decided to appe…
Turkey says suspends operations in Libya embassy due to security woes
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Operations at Turkey’s Tripoli embassy will be suspended due to worsening security situation in Libya, Turkey’s foreign ministry said on Friday, a day after Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the embassy in the capital could be …
Iran detains four journalists, three of them Iranian-American, says CPJ
ANKARA (Reuters) – (This story corrects name of UAE-based newspaper in para 2 to the National (not the Nation))
Georgia says seized heroin belongs to Taliban
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s interior minister said on Friday that $400 million of heroin seized earlier this month, in the country’s biggest ever drugs haul, belonged to the Taliban and was headed for Europe.
Forensic team unable to say how South Korea ferry businessman died
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s forensic agency said on Friday it was impossible to determine the cause of death of a businessman linked to a ferry that sank killing 304 people in April because there was too much tissue damage to his badly decomposed b…
Turkey’s Erdogan trumpets high-speed rail link as election looms
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a $4 billion high-speed train link between Istanbul and Ankara on Friday, the latest in a series of “mega projects” he hopes will help him win a presidential election in a few weeks…
Rival to UK PM Cameron in 2015 vote says can win despite poor image
LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour party said on Friday he could win a national election next May, despite his perceived image problem, by focusing on big policy ideas rather than photo opportunities.
Indonesia’s Prabowo challenges election result at Constitutional Court
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s losing candidate in this month’s presidential election challenged the official result in the Constitutional Court on Friday.
Turkish court keeps police in custody on spying allegations
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered that eight police officers be kept in custody on Friday pending a possible trial over accusations that they spied on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his inner circle, media reports said.
