Bomb explodes in Northern Ireland hotel, no casualties
BELFAST (Reuters) – A luxury Northern Ireland hotel was damaged in a bombing late on Thursday that politicians said was an attempt to drag the province back to its bloody past, but there were no injuries.
Special Report – Option B: The blueprint for Thailand’s coup
BANGKOK/CHIANG MAI Thailand (Reuters) – On Dec. 27 last year, Thailand’s powerful army chief stood before a crowded news conference and stunned the beleaguered government of Yingluck Shinawatra by saying he would not rule out military intervention to resolve a deteriorating political crisis. General Prayuth Chan-ocha said “the door was neither open nor closed” when he was asked whether a coup would happen. “Anything can happen.”
Quoting Old Testament, new pro-Russia militia group lines up in Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – They are tired after more than three days with almost no sleep but their eyes shine with battle fervor as they man the rebels’ frontline barricade in Donetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city where dozens were killed in a battle o…
Israel says prevented Palestinian suicide bomb attack
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank caught a Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt on Friday, police and the military said, preventing what could have been the first suicide attack in the area for years.
Anxious Ukrainians hope Poroshenko can keep them from abyss
KIEV (Reuters) – Winning the election was the easy part. Now the real work starts for Petro Poroshenko, and few Ukrainians have any illusions about the scale of the challenge facing their new president.
Two killed after peacekeepers clash with protesters in Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) – At least two people were shot dead on Friday by Burundian peacekeepers who clashed with protesters in the capital of Central African Republic, in a second day of violent demonstrations after an attack on a church ignited tensions.
Ukraine separatists down army helicopter, 14 killed
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army helicopter on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers including a general, as government forces pressed ahead with an offensive to crush rebellions in the east swiftly following the e…
Second diver dies in Korea ferry search as fugitive businessman’s car found
SEOUL (Reuters) – A diver searching for bodies in a sunken ferry died on Friday after an accident, the coast guard said, as a car believed to be used by a fugitive businessman linked to the ship was reported found.
China’s Xi vows to address poverty, ethnic unity in troubled Xinjiang
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to alleviate poverty and improve ethnic unity in restive Xinjiang, the most direct indication yet that China’s leaders want to address the causes of violence in the remote western region.
Al Qaeda renegade group kills 15 Kurds in northern Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An al Qaeda renegade group killed 15 Kurdish people, seven of them children, in an attack on a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group and a photographer at the scene said on Friday.
