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| Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes | |  By Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening. With Washington ruling out a ground operation in Syria, Turkey described as unrealistic any expectation that it would conduct a cross-border operation unilaterally to relieve the mainly Kurdish town. ...
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| Former Finmeccanica boss found guilty of false invoices in Indian scandal | |  BUSTO ARSIZIO Italy (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced former Finmeccanica Chairman and CEO Giuseppe Orsi to two years in jail for falsifying invoices in a corruption case linked to an Indian helicopter deal, but cleared him of corruption charges. The trial revolves around a 560-million euro contract awarded to Finmeccanica's helicopter unit AgustaWestland in 2010 to supply 12 helicopters to the Indian government. ...
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| Pakistan says capable of responding to Indian actions | |  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Thursday it was capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian actions on their disputed border after several days of clashes in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. "We do not want the situation on the borders of two nuclear neighbours to escalate into confrontation," the Defence Ministry said in a statement. "India must demonstrate caution and behave with responsibility." (Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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| Hong Kong hands probe of city's leader to prosecution office | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Department of Justice on Thursday gave the prosecution office authority to handle the investigation of a business payout to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to avoid any perception of bias. The move came after the Democratic Party said it had asked the Independent Commission Against Corruption to investigate Leung Chun-ying over a $6.4 million payment he got from an Australian engineering company while he was in office. The department said part of the brief included "considering and deciding whether prosecution action is warranted". ... |
| At least 42 killed in suicide bombing in Yemeni capital | |  By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 42 people on Thursday when he detonated an explosives-laden belt in a district of the Yemeni capital where the powerful Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement had planned to hold a rally, medics and witnesses said. A Reuters witness in Sanaa counted at least 20 bodies immediately after the attack on a checkpoint held by the Houthis, the country's main power brokers since their paramilitary forces seized the capital on Sept. 21 following weeks of anti-government demonstrations. ...
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| German police find record heroin haul in truckload of gherkins and garlic | | | DUESSELDORF Germany (Reuters) - Police have found Germany's biggest-ever stash of heroin, with an estimated street value of 50 million euros ($60 million), hidden in a truckload of pickled cucumbers and garlic. Police discovered 330 kg (730 lbs) of the drug in a truck in the western city of Essen and arrested two men, public prosecutor Anette Milk said on Thursday. The haul was more than the entire amount of heroin seized in Germany during 2013. Local media said the drugs came from Iran and the two men arrested were brothers belonging to a Syrian-Iraqi drug gang. ... |
| White policeman kills black teen in St Louis, triggering fresh protests | | | By Kenny Bahr ST LOUIS Mo (Reuters) - A white off-duty policeman shot and killed a black teenager in St Louis on Wednesday, officers said, triggering a night of protests just miles from the site of another police shooting of another black youth in the suburb of Ferguson. Police said the 18-year-old was armed and fired three shots while he was being chased by the officer, and they had recovered a gun at the scene. The youth was killed almost two months to the day since sometimes violent protests erupted in Ferguson after a white police officer shot dead unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown. ... |
| Thai traffic cops offered cash to turn down bribes | |  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's traffic policemen will get money in return for refusing bribes, police said on Thursday, part of the junta's efforts to combat what it has called an ingrained culture of corruption within the force. The army seized power in May after months of protests aimed at ousting Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female prime minister, saying it needed to restore order after nearly 30 people were killed in sporadic political violence. Since then, the military government has launched campaigns aimed at cleaning up Thailand's image as a haven for vice. ...
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| Japan protests S.Korea's indictment of Japanese reporter | |  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan lodged a stern protest with South Korea on Thursday over the indictment of a Japanese journalist for defamation of the South Korean president, but said the door for dialogue between the two countries' leaders should stay open. South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday indicted the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, Tatsuya Kato, after concluding that a report he wrote about President Park Geun-hye on Aug. 3 was based on "false information". The article discussed Park's personal life and whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in April. ...
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| Hong Kong party asks anti-graft agency to probe Leung over $6.4 mln payment | |  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Democratic Party said on Thursday it has asked the anti-corruption agency to investigate the city's leader Leung Chun-ying over a $6.4 million payment he got from an Australian engineering company while he was in office. Australia's Fairfax Media reported this week that engineering firm UGL Ltd paid Leung a total of more than $6 million in 2012 and 2013 in relation to its acquisition of DTZ Holdings, a property consultant that employed Leung as its Asia Pacific director before he took office in July 2012. Both Leung's office and UGL have denied any wrongdoing. ...
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| China angered after FBI head says Chinese hacking costs billions | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Thursday of faking facts, after the head of the FBI said that Chinese hacking likely cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. Charges over hacking and internet spying have increased tension between the two countries. In May, the United States charged five Chinese military officers with hacking into U.S. companies, prompting China to suspend a Sino-U.S. working group on cyber issues. China has denied wrongdoing. Speaking on CBS' 60 Minutes programme on Sunday, FBI Director James Comey said Chinese hackers were targeting big ...
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