China holds two bloggers as it expands crackdown on rumors
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in China have arrested an influential blogger and are holding a cartoonist in a widening crackdown on online “rumor-mongering”, friends and a lawyer for one of them said on Thursday.
More bombs explode in Myanmar; police arrest four suspects
YANGON (Reuters) – Several bombs exploded in northeastern Myanmar on Thursday, police said, the latest in a string of unexplained attacks, including a blast this week that injured an American tourist in a plush hotel in the country’s commercial capital…
Chemical weapons watchdog says confident on Syria deadlines
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The world’s chemical weapons watchdog is confident it will be able to meet deadlines to destroy Syria’s toxic stockpile even though some sites are in disputed or rebel-held territory, a special adviser to the organization’s direct…
Floods devastate an already bankrupt and blood-soaked Acapulco
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – Gangland violence and looming bankruptcy had already all but obliterated the glitter of Acapulco before catastrophic flooding last month drove crocodiles onto the streets of the Mexican beach resort and turned much of it in…
Japan PM Abe makes third offering to war shrine but again stays away
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made his third ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, but again he did not visit in person to avoid angering Asian victims of Japan’s war-time aggression.
U.S. Navy ship rescues migrants near Malta
ROME (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy ship rescued 128 men from a raft after it was spotted in the Mediterranean Sea by a Maltese patrol aircraft, U.S. authorities said, the latest incident in the growing migrant crisis.
German institutes warn minimum wage could threaten jobs in east
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s leading economic institutes warned on Thursday that the introduction of a minimum wage of 8.50 euros per hour, as demanded by Angela Merkel’s likely future coalition partner, could lead to significant job losses in eastern …
Syrian deputy PM says Geneva peace conference planned November 23-24
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said on Thursday a long-delayed international conference aimed at bringing the Syrian government and opposition together to seek an end to the civil war is scheduled for November 23-24.
New PM candidate boosts India’s opposition BJP party: polls
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has picked up support since naming Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi as its candidate for prime minister last month, but would need allies to form a government, two new opinion polls s…
Suicide truck bomber kills 15 in northern Iraq
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives blew himself up in a village in northern Iraq, killing at least 15 members of the country’s Shabak minority early on Thursday, police said.
