Days before death, Pakistani ganglord vowed to protect Karachi turf
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Days before he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Karachi, one of Pakistan’s most feared men said he would rather see the city in ruin than give up control over his turf in the country’s volatile commercial capital.
Fourteen Alawites killed by bomb in central Syria: group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed at least 14 members of President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite on Thursday in the central Syrian province of Homs, an opposition monitoring group said.
African leaders to hold summit on Kenya’s ICC cases
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – African leaders will meet in the Ethiopian capital on October 13 to take a common stance on whether to join Kenya’s planned pull-out from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the prosecution of its leaders, officials said…
Passenger train, bus collide in Canada’s capital, six dead
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A passenger train and a double-decker city bus collided on the outskirts of Ottawa on Wednesday, killing six people on the bus and injuring 30 others, emergency officials said.
Blackout hits large parts of Yemen after attack on power lines
SANAA (Reuters) – Large parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, have been left without electricity after Yemeni tribesmen attacked power lines on Thursday, a Yemeni official said.
Diplomatic tension over Hong Kong exposes fragility of hopes for democracy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – From China warning Western nations to stop meddling in Hong Kong to Communist Party-backed newspapers describing “plots” by foreign spies to seize the city, a growing row over electoral reform has exposed the fragility of hopes fo…
Freed Iranian lawyer Sotoudeh expects government to release others
DUBAI (Reuters) – Newly-released Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh said on Thursday she expected President Hassan Rouhani’s government to free hundreds of other people jailed for their political beliefs to show it is serious about reform.
Insight: Iraqis hesitate on the edge of chaos
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – In Sadr City, an impoverished district of northeastern Baghdad, local people say the anger of Shi’ite Muslims against Sunni militants is ready to erupt into violence.
Italy PM Letta rejects Berlusconi attack on judges
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Thursday dismissed Silvio Berlusconi’s attacks on judges who convicted him of tax fraud and said he would not allow his fragile coalition government to become the “punching ball” of his fractious …
EU police officer shot dead in Kosovo, testing fragile accord
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a European Union police officer in a mainly Serb region of Kosovo on Thursday, dealing the mission its first fatality since deploying in 2008 and shaking a fragile accord between the Balkan country and its former m…
