Four Tunisian soldiers killed in landmine blast
TUNIS (Reuters) – Four Tunisian soldiers were killed in a landmine blast during an operation against Islamist militants in the north of the country, TAP state news agency reported on Wednesday.
Eighty-one more migrants reported dead or missing on sea route to Italy: UNHCR
ROME (Reuters) – Migrants arriving on boats in southern Italy say 81 other people traveling with them have died or gone missing during their sea journeys from north Africa, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday.
Judge orders Benghazi suspect to remain in U.S. custody
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Libyan militant accused of involvement in the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya will remain in U.S. custody as he awaits trial, a federal judge said on Wednesday.
New Pakistan anti-terror law raises fears over civil rights
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday giving security forces sweeping powers to clamp down on militancy, but some activists and legislators criticized the provisions as too harsh.
Suicide bomber kills eight, wounds 13 in Afghan capital: police
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 13 on Wednesday in an attack on a bus carrying military personnel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials said.
Boko Haram carnage making Nigeria break-up less likely: Soyinka
ABEOKUTA Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s break-up less likely, Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate…
Lebanese MPs fail to elect president for eighth time
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese lawmakers failed to elect a president on Wednesday, for the eighth time, to succeed Michel Suleiman whose term ended in May, prolonging a political vacuum as the country struggles with violence, economic decline and an influ…
Sunnis, Kurds shun Iraq parliament
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Sunnis and Kurds walked out of the first session of Iraq’s new parliament on Tuesday after Shi’ites failed to name a prime minister to replace Nuri al-Maliki, dimming any prospect of an early national unity government to save Iraq f…
Myanmar police fire rubber bullets to end sectarian trouble in Mandalay
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar police fired rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse crowds of Buddhists and Muslims facing off in the second-largest city of Mandalay, police said, in the latest outbreak of trouble in two years of sectarian unrest.
Hong Kong protesters lifted kicking and screaming from downtown rally
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hundreds of Hong Kong police forcibly removed kicking and screaming protesters from the Central business district on Wednesday, holdouts of a mass rally demanding greater democracy from Communist Party rulers in Beijing.
