Islamist militant leader in Egypt’s Sinai killed: security sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Shadi al-Menei, an Islamist militant leader in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, was shot dead on Friday by unknown assailants, security sources said, a few days before Egyptians vote for a new president.
Syria video shows chlorine gas floating in streets: activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Opposition activists have posted a video of what they say is chlorine gas floating through the streets of a Syrian village and they accuse President Bashar al-Assad of mounting a chemical weapons campaign.
Thai military detains former PM Yingluck Shinawatra: senior officer
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s military government detained on Friday former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and members of her family after summoning her and other ministers for talks a day after the military seized power from her caretaker governm…
Chinese state media says five suicide bombers carried out Xinjiang attack
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – Five suicide bombers carried out the attack which killed 31 people in the capital of China’s troubled Xinjiang region, state media reported a day after the deadliest terrorist attack to date in the region.
Council of Europe raps Azerbaijan over rights record
BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan suffered an embarrassing and sharply timed rebuke on Friday when Europe’s main human rights and democracy forum accused it of intimidating and repressing its critics.
Congolese warlord jailed for brutal machete attack
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Congolese warlord Germain Katanga was given a 12 year sentence on Friday by the International Criminal Court for his part in an ethnically motivated attack more than a decade ago in which the victims were “carved” limb from limb.
Rumblings of dissent against India’s Gandhi after election drubbing
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Dissenting voices in India’s Congress party have for the first time lashed out at the campaign team of Rahul Gandhi, who led the 128-year-old party to the worst electoral defeat in its history last week.
Tunisian soldier killed in landmine explosion near Algerian border
TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian soldier was killed and five wounded on Friday in a landmine explosion near the Algerian border where security forces have been hunting Islamist militants, the army said.
Egypt’s Brotherhood struggles to regroup in exile
DOHA/DUBAI (Reuters) – Exiled leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood are struggling to regroup, targeted by hostile Arab powers, cut off from senior colleagues imprisoned back home and challenged by angry young followers tempted to seek change by violen…
U.N. torture watchdog urges Vatican to pursue sex criminals
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations torture watchdog called on the Vatican on Friday to cooperate with civil authorities in prosecuting all cases of suspected sexual abuse by pedophile priests and to set up its own independent complaints mechanism.
