Japan’s Abe orders surviving Fukushima reactors scrapped, pledges safe Olympics
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the scrapping of two Fukushima nuclear reactors that survived the 2011 tsunami, a write-off that threatens to complicate a turnaround plan the operator has presented to creditors.
Children find 10 handcuffed, blindfolded corpses in Baghdad: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Children discovered the handcuffed and blindfolded corpses of 10 unidentified young men in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, apparently killed by gunshots to the head, Iraqi police said.
Former British PM Blair’s daughter held at gunpoint in London
LONDON (Reuters) – The daughter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was held up at gunpoint during an attempted robbery as she was out walking in London, local media said on Thursday.
Egypt shortens curfew by two hours as of Saturday: cabinet
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will shorten its curfew as of Saturday to start at midnight rather than 11 p.m., the cabinet said in an emailed statement.
EU police officer shot dead in volatile northern Kosovo
PRISTINA (Reuters) – A European Union police officer in Kosovo was shot dead on Thursday in a northern, mainly Serb region where tensions are rising over a fragile accord between the Balkan country and its former master Serbia.
Taliban attack police in previously peaceful Afghan north
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters have attacked police in northern Afghanistan, government officials said on Thursday, though they gave different accounts of the severity of the attack.
Military option on Syria must remain open: NATO chief
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The option of carrying out a military strike or similar operation in Syria must be kept open as a way of dealing with the crisis, the secretary-general of the NATO military alliance said on Thursday.
Attacks on journalists threaten Yemeni freedom: Human Rights Watch
SANAA (Reuters) – A spate of attacks on journalists in Yemen, including an unsolved murder, threaten to undermine the growth of media freedoms as the U.S.-backed government enacts pro-democracy reforms, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Anti-euro party could enter German parliament: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – For the first time a new German anti-euro party has cleared the 5 percent threshold for entering parliament in an opinion poll, indicating Chancellor Angela Merkel might be unable to repeat her center-right coalition after Sunday’s e…
Two bombs defused on Cairo metro: report
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian explosives experts defused two primitive bombs planted on the Cairo metro line on Thursday, the state news agency reported, causing a partial closure of the network.
