Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks pleads not guilty in hacking charges
LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a former executive to Rupert Murdoch and a close friend of Prime Minister David Cameron, pleaded not guilty in a London court on Wednesday to charges of criminal behavior during her time at two national tabloids.
Even after earlier fire, China poultry plant workers didn’t query locked doors
DEHUI, China (Reuters) – Workers at a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China where 119 people died in a fire this week saw nothing odd in the plant’s doors being locked, even after a previous fire at the 4-year-old facility.
Most Europeans, especially the French, unhappy about EU: survey
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Nearly two-thirds of French people think the European Union is headed in the wrong direction and more than half disapprove of President Francois Hollande’s leadership, according to a widely-watched survey released on Wednesday.
Yemen army starts operation against al Qaeda in east
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemeni troops backed by tanks and helicopters assaulted an eastern city on Wednesday to drive out al Qaeda-linked militants who had planned to set up an Islamist emirate there, a local official said.
Slovenian opposition leader convicted in bribery case
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenian opposition leader and former prime minister Janez Jansa and two co-defendants were found guilty on Wednesday of receiving bribes in a 2006 deal with Finnish defense manufacturer Patria.
South Korea finds two more reactors used fake part certificates
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean government probe into nuclear safety has uncovered cables with forged safety certificates at two power plants under construction, a source at the sector’s regulator said on Wednesday.
Bulgaria now says Hezbollah’s role in bus bombing unproven
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria said on Wednesday it only had an “indication” that Lebanon’s Hezbollah might have been behind a deadly bus bombing in July and that this alone did not justify any European Union move to list it as a terrorist group.
Four dead as Myanmar violence spills into Malaysia: police
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Ethnic violence in Myanmar between Muslims and Buddhists appears to have spilled over into Malaysia, police said on Wednesday, with four killings in recent days suspected to be linked to the religious tension.
Syrian army captures strategic border town of Qusair
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army seized control on Wednesday of the strategic border town of Qusair, Syrian media and security sources said, in a major advance for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the country’s two-year civil war.
Another contaminated water leak at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant
TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said it had found another leak of contaminated water on Wednesday, piling pressure on the utility to curb the problem as it seeks permission to release water to the sea.
