Thai vote goes smoothly as protesters regroup near Bangkok lakes
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand held re-run elections in five provinces where voting was disrupted in last month’s poll by anti-government protesters who decamped from a main Bangkok intersection on Sunday and moved inside a central park.
Iran says abducted border guards freed in Pakistan
DUBAI (Reuters) – Five Iranian border guards reportedly seized and held captive in Pakistan for three weeks have been freed, an Iranian military official has been quoted as saying, although Pakistani authorities said they had no knowledge of the incide…
Venezuela foreign minister to meet Ban Ki-moon in Geneva
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela said on Saturday its foreign minister will meet United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva on Tuesday amid growing international calls for dialogue between political players to ease the OPEC nation’s worst unre…
Putin ready to invade Ukraine; Kiev warns of war
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament’s approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to NATO for help.
At least 28 die in ‘terrorist’ attack at Chinese train station: reports
BEIJING (Reuters) – At least 28 people were killed by knife-wielding attackers in a “violent terrorist attack” at a train station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, and police shot dead five of the assailants, state media said on Sunday.
Obama, wary of foreign crises, faces East-West standoff in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As Russia deepened its military intervention in Ukraine’s Crimea region on Saturday, ignoring Barack Obama’s stern warning, the U.S. president faced a critical test of whether Washington has the leverage or the will to get Moscow…
Pakistani army fuels anger in securing Swat from Taliban
KHWAZAKHELA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani farmer Wazir Jamal was so upset about being forced off his patch of land to make way for an army base in the Swat Valley that he killed himself, family and friends say.
Militant ambush kills 12 of polio workers escort in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants killed 12 members of the security escort for a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, detonating a roadside bomb before opening fire on their convoy, according to officials.
Bomb kills at least 10 in northeast Nigerian city: witnesses
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed on Saturday when a bomb exploded in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses said, in a region where the Islamist sect Boko Haram is pursuing a bloody insurgency.
Turkish parliament votes to shut schools run by Erdogan rival
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s parliament has voted to close private preparatory schools, many of which are a source of income and influence for an Islamic cleric accused by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of covertly seeking to topple him.
