Chinese rail official gets death sentence in corruption case
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a former railway official to death for corruption, but promised a reprieve after two years of good behavior, state media reported, in the latest graft case to hit China’s sprawling rail network…
North Korea on major sports drive, says Pyongyang official
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea hopes to harness the power of sport to raise its image on the world stage through international competitions such as the Olympic Games, and to bolster labor output and national defense by improving its citizens’ well-being…
Ex-India PM immune from some claims of Sikh genocide: U.S. judge
(Reuters) – Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is immune from claims that he supported the genocide of Sikhs during his decade leading the country, a federal judge has ruled.
Swedish opposition widens lead in opinion poll ahead of Sept elections
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s centre-left opposition parties’ lead over the governing coalition has increased and the Social Democrats, Green and Left parties would get 50.4 percent of votes if an election were held now, an opinion poll showed on Wedn…
‘No’ from one Iraq villager triggered Islamic State mass killings
DOHUK Iraq (Reuters) – When Islamic State militants stormed into a northern Iraqi village and ordered everyone to convert to Islam or die only one person refused. But that did not satisfy the Sunni insurgents who are even more hardline than al Qaeda.
Masked gunmen slay family collecting body at Honduras morgue, kill nine
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Masked gunmen attacked a family collecting a body from a morgue in the ultraviolent Honduran city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday, killing nine people including four of the deceased’s kin.
China presses South Sudan over renewed violence
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister pressed his South Sudan counterpart over renewed violence in the oil-rich state, demanding an immediate ceasefire and political dialogue in the country which is heavily reliant on Chinese investment.
Liberia fights Ebola in capital, West Africa toll tops 1,200
MONROVIA/GENEVA (Reuters) – Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down oceanside capital Monrovia, recording the most new deaths as fatalities from the world’s worst outbreak of the deadly virus rose abo…
Libyan militia fire rockets into affluent Tripoli residential district
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libyan militiamen fired rockets into an affluent district of Tripoli early on Tuesday, moving a battle with a rival armed faction closer to the center of the capital after fighters on one side came under air attack.
Advancing Ukraine troops take fight to heart of pro-Moscow rebellion
DONETSK Ukraine/BERLIN (Reuters) – A gun battle broke out in the center of the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk and residents ran for cover from artillery fire on Tuesday, taking a government military offensive into the heart of the retreating pro-…
