Mubarak’s last PM interested in running for Egyptian presidency
CAIRO (Reuters) – Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, said in a television interview broadcast on Thursday that he would run for president if the army chief does not contest elections.
As Bangkok ‘shutdown’ looms, Thailand’s ‘Teflon’ economy put to the test
BANGKOK (Reuters) – It has been nicknamed “Teflon Thailand” – an economy seemingly impervious to any lasting effects from regular spasms of violent political unrest.
Egypt arrests American on charges of attacking police stations
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian airport authorities have arrested an Egyptian-born American who belongs to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on charges of taking part in violence against the state, security sources said on Thursday.
Security alert in southern Russia after at least five bodies found
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has put security forces on combat alert in the southern Stavropol region after the discovery of at least five corpses with gunshot wounds and an explosive device there barely a month before the start of the Winter Olympic Game…
U.S. says China’s fishing curbs ‘provocative and potentially dangerous’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, already at odds with China over that country’s air defense zone, said on Thursday that new Chinese fishing restrictions in disputed waters in the South China Sea were “provocative and potentially dangerous.”
Taliban kills ‘Pakistan’s toughest cop’ in Karachi car bomb
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A top Pakistani policeman renowned for his tough stance on criminals and Islamist militants was killed by a Taliban car bomb in the volatile southern city of Karachi on Thursday, police said.
Suicide bomber kills 23 Iraqi army recruits
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounded 36 in Baghdad on Thursday, officials said, in an attack on men volunteering to join the government’s struggle to crush al Qaeda-linked militants in Anbar province.
Fidel Castro, 87, makes rare public appearance
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro made a surprise appearance on Wednesday evening at the opening of a Havana cultural center sponsored by one of his favorite Cuban artists.
U.S. embassy photo, tweet about civil war anger Sri Lanka military
COLOMBO (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Colombo posted a photograph on Twitter on Thursday which it said showed a site where the Sri Lankan army killed hundreds of families towards the end of the civil war in 2009, prompting an angry response from the …
Afghanistan to free most inmates seen by U.S. as threat
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan has enough evidence to try only 16 of 88 prisoners that the United States considers a threat to security and plans to free the remaining detainees, the president’s spokesman said on Thursday.
