Militants attack Indian consulate in western Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A handful of heavily armed insurgents, including suicide bombers, launched a rocket propelled grenade and gun attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat hours before dawn on Friday, officials sa…
Thai junta races to rescue, but braces for backlash
BANGKOK (Reuters) – If Prayuth Chan-ocha’s decision to stage Thailand’s latest in a long list of coups was as impulsive as he suggests, then the stern-faced general has a Herculean task managing the fallout and deciding what happens next.
Anxiety grips Malawi as vote count delays drag on
BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) – Anxiety mounted in Malawi on Friday as the wait for results from a presidential election dragged on, with only 12 percent of votes counted in the three days since they were cast.
Dominican Republic’s more humane prison model
SAN CRISTOBAL, Dominican Republic (Reuters) – Gone are the satellite dishes that once crowded the prison rooftop, feeding signals to flat-screen TVs in the private suites for which drug lords and other wealthy inmates used to pay upwards of $25,000.
At least three killed in suicide attack on Shi’ites in Yemen
ADEN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into a checkpoint manned by Shi’ite Muslim fighters in northern Yemen on Friday, killing at least three people, officials and local people said.
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.
