Frontrunner to be next British prime minister dealt poll blow
LONDON (Reuters) – Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition Labor party and the frontrunner to succeed David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister in 2015, saw his popularity rating fall to an all-time low on Thursday.
Islamist rebels execute two Shi’ite youths in Syria: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two youths from Shi’ite villages in northern Syria have been executed by members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebel group, according to a video uploaded to the Internet on Wednesday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
U.N. rights boss calls for credible probe into Egypt killings
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Thursday for an independent investigation into the killing of hundreds of Egyptians when security forces crushed Islamist protest camps.
U.S. asks Ireland to extradite ‘largest facilitator of child porn’
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The United States has asked Ireland to hand over a 28-year-old man who the Federal Bureau of Investigation says is the world’s largest facilitator of child pornography, the Irish High Court heard on Thursday.
Border firing continues as India, Pakistan mark independence
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire across their frontier in Kashmir and, in a sign of increased tension, skipped their custom of exchanging sweets to mark the nuclear-armed rivals’ independence days.
See you in court, Gibraltar chief tells Spain over fishing spat
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – Gibraltar is confident it will win any legal case brought by Spain in a dispute over fishing waters and border controls, the head of the British territory told Reuters, challenging the Madrid government to meet him in court.
Turkish troops repel hundreds of ‘smugglers’ on Syrian border
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish troops returned fire after coming under attack along the Syrian border overnight as more than 1,000 alleged smugglers, including 150 on horseback, tried to cross into Turkey from Syria, the military said.
Russian, Chinese leaders to hold talks in September
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping next month, Interfax said on Thursday.
Charred bodies lie in Cairo mosque, unrecognized by Egyptian state
CAIRO (Reuters) – In a Cairo mosque lie the charred and mutilated bodies of more than 200 Egyptians, apparently uncounted and unacknowledged by the state after security forces crushed Islamist protest camps.
Analysis: On ‘massacre’ anniversary, South Africa mines still volatile
MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) – A year after South Africa’s bloodiest post-apartheid labor incident awoke the world to the potential for unrest in the country’s mines, the industry still suffers from worker poverty, pay disputes, shrinking profits a…
