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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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| At least 20 killed in suicide bombing in Yemeni capital | |  By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden belt in a district of the Yemeni capital where supporters of Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement were to have held a rally, witnesses said. A Reuters witness counted at least 20 bodies 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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| 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. ... |
| China bans tainted stars from TV, movie screens | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Stars who have used drugs, visited prostitutes or been involved in other law-breaking will not be allowed to appear on Chinese television, movie screens or other forms of broadcast, state media said on Thursday, following a series of scandals. The ban by the broadcast regulator, which includes radio and advertisements, is meant to "keep the industry healthy", the official China Daily reported. ...
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| Russia moves closer to adopting compensation for sanctions law | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian parliament moved a step closer on Wednesday to adopting a law that would allow for foreign assets inside the country to be seized and for the state to pay compensation for the loss of property due to Western sanctions. The pro-Kremlin deputy who submitted the draft law says the bill would protect the interests of ordinary people. Critics say it would shield Russian billionaires and officials from the impact of sanctions imposed over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its support for rebels in eastern Ukraine. ...
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