Uighur scholar kept in chains in China, lawyer says
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities held a prominent Uighur academic in leg irons for 20 days and forced him to go without food, his lawyer said on Thursday, after seeing his client for the first time since he was arrested more than five months ago…
Erdogan’s presidential rival says keep religion out of politics
ANKARA (Reuters) – The main Turkish opposition candidate for president stressed the need to keep religion out of politics on Thursday and called for national unity, a clear challenge to the divisive but popular Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan who looks s…
Islamists attack Yemeni airport as bomber hits army base: sources
ADEN (Reuters) – Six suspected al Qaeda fighters, six soldiers and a civilian woman were killed in a series of militant attacks in the eastern Yemeni city of Seiyun on Thursday, local officials said.
Cameroon army says kills at least 10 suspected Boko Haram militants
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon security forces have killed at least 10 suspected Boko Haram militants in three clashes in the north of the country near its border with Nigeria, a senior military official said on Thursday.
Kerry tells Russia to disarm Ukraine separatists ‘in hours’
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Russia on Thursday to disarm separatists in Ukraine within “the next hours” as the European Union prepared to discuss deeper sanctions against Moscow.
U.N. appeals to Iran not to execute woman for crime as a teenager
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief appealed to Iran on Thursday not to execute a woman convicted of murdering her husband at age 17.
Divergent visions could split Iraq’s Sunni revolt
BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) – The militants dismantling Iraq’s borders and threatening regional war are far from united — theirs is a marriage of convenience between ultra-hardline religious zealots and more pragmatic Sunni armed groups.
Jordanian court acquits radical cleric Abu Qatada of conspiracy
AMMAN (Reuters) – A Jordanian court on Thursday acquitted radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who was extradited from Britain last year, of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.
Malaysia jet most likely on autopilot when it crashed, Australia says
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was most likely on autopilot when it crashed into the Indian Ocean further south than previously thought, Australian officials said on Thursday, as they charted the next phase of a so far fruitless sear…
South Africa’s largest union NUMSA says to strike from July 1
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Almost a quarter of a million South African workers in sectors from engineering to communications will strike indefinitely from July 1 in pursuit of a pay claim, the latest of a series of stoppages that have damaged Africa’s mo…
