Malaysian teenager gang-raped by 38 men: media
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police have detained 13 men and are looking for other suspects following allegations that a 15-year-old girl was raped by 38 men in an abandoned hut, media said on Friday.
Lost Malaysian jetliner to dominate industry meet as tracking row goes on
DOHA/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Global airlines are gathering in Doha for an industry summit intended to celebrate 100 years of commercial air travel, but now darkened by the disappearance of Malaysian jetliner MH370.
Opposition leaders say they hold power in Abkhazia
SUKHUMI Georgia (Reuters) – Opposition leaders said on Friday they now held power in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, despite President Alexander Ankvab’s refusal to quit after protesters stormed his headquarters.
China decries call in U.S. to name street after jailed Tiananmen dissident
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Friday criticized a group of U.S. lawmakers for calling for a Washington street near the Chinese embassy to be named after imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, behavior it said was “provocative” and “ignorant”….
New Delhi seeks report on grisly rape, hanging of teens
LUCKNOW India (Reuters) – India’s new home minister weighed in on Friday in a grisly case in which two teenage girls were raped and hanged from a tree this week, as public anger and political controversy over the attack gain momentum.
Bomb explodes in Northern Ireland hotel, no casualties
BELFAST (Reuters) – A luxury Northern Ireland hotel was damaged in a bombing late on Thursday that politicians said was an attempt to drag the province back to its bloody past, but there were no injuries.
Special Report – Option B: The blueprint for Thailand’s coup
BANGKOK/CHIANG MAI Thailand (Reuters) – On Dec. 27 last year, Thailand’s powerful army chief stood before a crowded news conference and stunned the beleaguered government of Yingluck Shinawatra by saying he would not rule out military intervention to resolve a deteriorating political crisis. General Prayuth Chan-ocha said “the door was neither open nor closed” when he was asked whether a coup would happen. “Anything can happen.”
Quoting Old Testament, new pro-Russia militia group lines up in Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – They are tired after more than three days with almost no sleep but their eyes shine with battle fervor as they man the rebels’ frontline barricade in Donetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city where dozens were killed in a battle o…
Israel says prevented Palestinian suicide bomb attack
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank caught a Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt on Friday, police and the military said, preventing what could have been the first suicide attack in the area for years.
Anxious Ukrainians hope Poroshenko can keep them from abyss
KIEV (Reuters) – Winning the election was the easy part. Now the real work starts for Petro Poroshenko, and few Ukrainians have any illusions about the scale of the challenge facing their new president.
