Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian at West Bank checkpoint
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab one of them at a West Bank checkpoint on Friday, a police spokesman said, the second Palestinian fatality in the territory in a few hours.
Taliban plan wave of revenge attacks in Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban announced on Friday they would orchestrate a wave of revenge attacks against the government after naming hardline commander Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader.
Radical reds upset South Africa’s political color balance
BEKKERSDAL, South Africa (Reuters) – Color has always been central to South African politics, but now, nearly 20 years after the end of apartheid, the tint of your T-shirt matters as much as that of your skin.
Singapore PM’s website defaced by hackers
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Hackers claiming links to international hacking group Anonymous defaced Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s official website late on Thursday, one day after he said authorities would spare no effort to track them down.
Singapore PM’s website defaced by hackers
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Hackers claiming links to international hacking group Anonymous defaced Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s official website late on Thursday, one day after he said authorities would spare no effort to track them down.
Police detain man over bombings in north China city
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have detained a man in connection with several small bombs that exploded in front of a Communist Party building in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan earlier this week, state media reported on Friday.
Exclusive: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sour…
Exclusive: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sour…
Kerry to join Iran nuclear talks in bid to reach deal
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will join nuclear talks between major powers and Iran in Geneva on Friday in an attempt to nail down a long-elusive accord to start resolving a decade-old standoff over Tehran’s atomic aims.
Heavy fighting rocks Libyan capital as rival militia battle
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Rival militiamen battled each other for hours with anti-aircraft guns and grenades across Tripoli on Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 12 in the worst fighting for months in the Libyan capital.
