In China’s Xinjiang, poverty, exclusion are greater threat than Islam
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – In the dirty backstreets of the Uighur old quarter of Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in China’s far west, Abuduwahapu frowns when asked what he thinks is the root cause of the region’s festering problem with violence and unrest.
Another Canadian freight train derails in Alberta, no injuries
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying lumber and sulfur dioxide derailed in the Western Canadian province of Alberta on Sunday, but there were no injuries or spills of dangerous goods, a spokesman for the railway said.
India throws rings of protection around divisive candidate Modi
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – – Indian security forces are preparing for one of their most challenging assignments in decades, protecting prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in a country with a grim history of political assassinations.
Less sin, more Shrek in Macau as China takes aim in corruption fight
MACAU (Reuters) – The media scrum surrounding the politically connected chairman of a Chinese financial services company was interested in one particular unpaid loan.
Syria opposition lays preconditions for peace talks
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Syrian opposition set terms on Sunday for attending peace talks to end the Syrian civil war, in a move that throws the proposed conference into further confusion after the international envoy said there should be no preconditions….
Syrian army and allies push into southern Damascus: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian army and Shi’ite Muslim fighters attacked Sunni rebel areas in southern Damascus on Sunday in an offensive aimed at breaking resistance to President Bashar al-Assad around the capital, activists said.
UK response to Snowden data ‘imperils press freedom’: rights groups
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s response to leaks of intelligence information by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has eroded human rights and press freedoms, rights groups said on Sunday.
South African mob burns, stones five to death in vigilante riot
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Five alleged criminals including a witch doctor were killed by an enraged South African mob in a township on Sunday, police said, the latest act of vigilantism in a country plagued with high rates of violent crime.
British minister says Islamic veil should be banned in courts
LONDON (Reuters) – Muslim women should be banned from wearing a veil when giving evidence in British courts, a cabinet minister in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government said on Sunday, arguing it was hard to judge someone’s testimony otherwise.
Berlin prosecutors investigate ex-Merkel ally who joined Daimler
BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin prosecutors are investigating ex-German state minister Eckart von Klaeden over a potential conflict of interest after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s former ally joined carmaker Daimler as a lobbyist, a spokeswoman for the prosecut…
