Turkey’s ruling AK Party to announce presidential candidate on July 1
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s ruling AK Party will announce its presidential candidate – expected to be Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan – at a parliamentary group meeting on July 1, a party official told Reuters on Tuesday.
China shows graphic footage of Xinjiang militant attacks
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state television on Tuesday showed dramatic footage of what the government calls terror attacks by Islamist militants from the far western region of Xinjiang, as it steps up its propaganda campaign to counter an upsurge in v…
Bangladesh Islamist party chief war crimes verdict postponed
DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal deferred its verdict on an Islamist party chief already sentenced to death in a separate case on Tuesday because he is sick, lawyers said.
Spain High Court dismisses China rights cases
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court on Monday dismissed two judicial investigations into alleged cases of genocide and human rights violations by Chinese authorities under a new law that limits Spanish judges from probing international cases.
Kerry in Kurdistan to urge leaders to be part of national government
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from the political process in Baghdad after their forces took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk.
Leader of Tijuana drug cartel captured in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers have captured the leader of the Tijuana cartel in the northern border city, government officials said on Tuesday, in a fresh blow to the once powerful drug gang.
Machete-wielding gang kills five in Kenyan village: officials
MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) – Attackers armed with machetes killed at least five people in a village on Kenya’s coast close to where gunmen shot down about 65 people last week, officials said on Tuesday.
Israel says Assad forces behind Golan attack that killed boy
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Syrian forces launched an attack that killed an Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights and Damascus would have to “pay the price” for it.
As costs rise, Israeli settlements face questions at home
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli lawmakers are pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lift what they call unjustified secrecy over opaque – and rising – funding for settlements on West Bank land Palestinians want for a state.
Opponents of Thai junta launch democracy campaign
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Opponents of Thailand’s junta launched a campaign on Tuesday to restore democracy and “oppose the military dictatorship and its aristocratic network”, the first sign of organised resistance to the army since it seized power last mon…
