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| U.N. chief tries to kick-start sagging enthusiasm for climate deal | |  By Ben Garside and Valerie Volcovici LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this month hopes to reinvigorate the years-long effort to forge a global climate deal, even as concerns grow over whether the final pact will be rigorous enough to address threats to the environment. Ban wants heads of state at a Sept. 23 gathering in New York to outline how their countries will contribute to a mutual goal to contain rising temperatures, said Selwin Hart, the Barbadian diplomat helping to spearhead the conference. Hart said the event will avoid some of the thornier questions surrounding the ultimate outcome of the Paris summit, but should give a good indication of how serious countries are. They include cities, energy, transportation and climate resilience.
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| Taliban detonate truck bombs in central Afghanistan, 18 killed | |  By Mustafa Andalib GHAZNI Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents detonated truck bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades outside the office of Afghanistan's spy agency and a police compound in the central town of Ghazni on Thursday, killing 18 people, the provincial governor said. More than 150 people were wounded in the attack, the biggest in recent weeks, as Afghanistan's leadership grapples with a political crisis and a security vacuum as most foreign troops prepare to leave the country. Ghazni provincial governor Musa Khan Akbarzada said a group of 19 insurgents was involved in the simultaneous attacks on the local office of the National Directorate of Security and a quick reaction team housed in the police building.
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| UK opposition leader to Scots: Spurn breakaway because PM Cameron is on way out | |  By Andrew Osborn and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour party will urge Scots on Thursday to reject independence in a referendum this month, predicting it would soon bundle from office ruling Conservatives that many Scots feel reflect English interests, with little support north of the border. Labour leader Ed Miliband will say that even British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives think they may lose a May 2015 British general election, citing comments made by Ruth Davidson, leader of the party in Scotland, who said on Tuesday "it isn't looking likely" her party will be re-elected according to opinion polls. Polls in recent days have given Labour a slender lead of 3 percentage points over the Conservatives. Miliband's strategy is to try to tap into a dislike of Cameron's right-leaning party in Scotland, where it has just one of 59 UK parliamentary seats, by saying that his own left-leaning party will win the election and give Scotland new powers and policies obviating any need to leave the UK.
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| China sacks two officials who trash restaurant over cheap liquor | | | China sacked two officials who ransacked a restaurant and beat the manager in a fit of rage over their small servings of food and cheap liquor, state media said on Thursday, amid a crackdown on extravagance by the country's top leaders. Li Jingli, the party secretary in Xingtangsi township in Shanxi province, was dining with eight other local officials, including the head of discipline inspection Liu Bin, when the quarrel with the restaurant manager started. The People's Daily reported the two officials were upset at being served "small dishes and cheap cigarettes and liquor". The nine officials present at the banquet were punished, including Li and Liu, who were demoted, the People's Daily said, adding that it was unclear if the restaurant owner would be compensated. |
| Reporter seeks 'Kennedy Connection' in JFK-inspired thriller | | | By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Take a disgraced reporter desperate for a comeback and a tip about new evidence in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and you have "The Kennedy Connection," a crime thriller written by a media insider fascinated with one of the defining moments of American history. Veteran American journalist R.G. Belsky's career includes stints as metropolitan news editor at the New York Post newspaper and managing editor of the New York Daily News, where his latest work of fiction is set. He spoke to Reuters about the inspiration for "The Kennedy Connection," its colorful cast of journalists, and those tantalizing "What if's?" Q: Have you always been interested in the Kennedy assassination? |
| Police probe staff at China business daily, PR firms for graft - Xinhua | | | Chinese police have arrested eight people, including several editorial staff from a prominent financial newspaper, on suspicion of extorting money from businesses, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. Employees of two local public relations firms were among the eight people being investigated by Shanghai police, it added. The probe into the 21st Century Business Herald newspaper is one of the biggest into the local media since President Xi Jinping launched a sweeping crackdown on corruption when he took over the ruling Communist Party in late 2012. Police had taken "criminal coercive measures against the eight suspects" in line with the law, Xinhua cited the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai as saying. |
| Afghan forces hunt militant leader once welcomed under peace process | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces are hunting a senior Islamist militant allowed to settle in the country in 2011 under a government peace plan but who is now leading hundreds of insurgents seeking to overrun the northern province of Kunduz, officials said. The search for Qari Bilal, who according to the Long War Journal is from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) group linked to al Qaeda and Afghanistan's ousted Taliban, comes months before most foreign troops are due to leave the country. Afghan soldiers and police have been engaged in weeks of sometimes heavy fighting against militants led in part by Bilal, according to officials in Kunduz, a province of symbolic and strategic importance. Kunduz was the last northern stronghold held by the Taliban during the U.S.-led war that ousted the hardline Islamist group in 2001, and is a trade route linking Afghanistan with the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan to the north. |
| Thai PM vows reform council to include people from all walks of life | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Thursday set out broad criteria for the selection of a 250-member council to draw up sweeping political reforms and approve a new constitution, saying people from all walks of life would be included. Prayuth was speaking in Bangkok to mark the beginning of a selection process for the National Reform Council. It will draft political and economic reforms, including reshaping energy policy, education, public health, the media and other matters, he said. "Committees will have to choose people carefully and transparently." The aims of the council mirror demands made by pro-establishment, anti-government protesters who took to the streets of Bangkok for six months from late last year to try to oust then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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