After deadly ferry disaster, Philippines asks what went wrong
TALISAY, Philippines (Reuters) – As rescuers plucked more bodies from the sea after a Philippine ferry and a cargo ship collided late last week, killing at least 38 people, a vexing but familiar question faces a country plagued by an abysmal record in …
Booming Gibraltar fears new era of sour relations with Spain
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – The people of tiny Gibraltar – a wealthy British enclave perched on a rocky outcrop near Spain’s southern tip – have a tradition of griping about their big neighbor, which claims the territory as its own.
North Korea accepts South’s proposal to resume war-torn family reunions
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Sunday it had accepted a South Korean offer to hold working-level talks on resuming reunions of families separated by the Korean War, three days after an overture by South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
Saudi prince fires celebrity TV preacher for Brotherhood links
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has fired a renowned Kuwaiti preacher and motivational speaker from the top job at the religious television channel he owns for what he described as “extremist inclinations” and links to th…
Lebanon seizes bomb-laden car, arrests four
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese security forces seized a car loaded with explosives and arrested four men suspected of preparing bombs, days after a deadly bombing in southern Beirut, security sources said on Sunday.
China’s fallen former high-flyer Bo to stand trial Thursday
BEIJING (Reuters) – The trial of disgraced senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai will start on Thursday, when he will face charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power in China’s most divisive and dramatic case in decades.
Flamboyant Chinese princeling faces final indignity
BEIJING (Reuters) – The writing was perhaps already on the wall for Bo Xilai, the controversial former top official of China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, when he appeared at last year’s parliamentary meeting, alternately chastened and combative.
American al Qaeda militant urges attacks on U.S. diplomats
DUBAI (Reuters) – An American al Qaeda militant has called for more attacks on Western diplomats in the Arab world, praising the killers of the U.S. ambassador to Libya on September 11 last year, a U.S.-based monitoring group said on Sunday.
Four Thai nationals released in Nigeria a week after kidnapping
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) – Four Thai nationals have been released unhurt a week after they were abducted while travelling to a farm in southern Nigeria, police said on Sunday.
Crackdown on Brotherhood makes Cairo a ghost town after dark
CAIRO (Reuters) – When night falls in Cairo, a security crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood quickly turns the Arab world’s most vibrant city into a ghost town run mostly by vigilantes eager to hunt down members of the Islamist group.
