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| 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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| Death toll from suicide attack on Yemeni Houthis at 42 - medics | |  SANAA (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide bombing against a Shi'ite Muslim Houthi checkpoint in Sanaa has risen to 42, including several children, medical sources said on Thursday. They said the death toll was likely to rise further as the some of the casualties, who had been distributed to four hospitals in the Yemeni capital, were in serious condition. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghoabri, writing by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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| Islamic State seizes one third of Syrian town Kobani - monitor | |  By Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani despite U.S.-led air strikes targeting them in and around the mainly Kurdish community, a monitoring group said on Thursday. The commander of Kobani's heavily outgunned Kurdish defenders said Islamic State controlled a slightly smaller area. ...
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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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| Sri Lankan president considers early election, ally says, amid signs of fading popularity | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa could hold a snap election in January, nearly two years before he has to, a close ally said, amid signs his popularity is fading among people who criticise his party for abusing power. Rajapaksa, 68, came to power in 2005 and retained the presidency in 2010 on a wave of popularity after the military defeated Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009, ending a 26-year-old civil war. ...
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| Islamic State claims downing Iraqi military helicopter | | | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed that it shot down an Iraqi army helicopter in northern Iraq, the SITE monitoring group reported early on Thursday. The helicopter crashed on Wednesday in Salahuddin province north of Baghdad near the Baiji oil refinery, the largest such facility in the country, according to an Iraqi army officer. The officer confirmed two army personnel died, but said the crash was still under investigation. Islamic State said on Twitter that it downed the aircraft and published pictures that it claimed were of the debris and the corpse of one of the pilots. ... |
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