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.
Madagascar court bars Rajoelina and Lalao from election
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Madagascar’s electoral court has barred the incumbent president, Andry Rajoelina, and the wife of a long-standing rival from standing in the next presidential election, the court said.
EU to review relationship with Egypt in coming days
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will review its relationship with Egypt in the coming days, the 28-member bloc said on Sunday.
Five Bahraini security officers injured by homemade bomb in village
DUBAI (Reuters) – Five Bahraini security officers were injured, two seriously, when a bomb exploded in a village in the north of the Gulf island kingdom that is grappling with renewed pro-democracy protests and attacks on police and the military.
Japan nationalists return after nearing islands disputed with China
EAST CHINA SEA (Reuters) – Boats carrying about 20 members of a Japanese nationalist group headed back to port on Sunday after sailing near tiny islands in the East China Sea that are at the center of a dispute between Japan and China.
Britain to reopen embassy in Yemen on Sunday
(Reuters) – The British Embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa will reopen on Sunday after being closed for 12 days because of security concerns.
