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| Taliban fighters breach Afghan army base, exchange fire with troops | | | By Hamid Shalizi and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants breached the perimeter of a huge former U.S. and British base handed over to the Afghan army last month and were fighting soldiers there on Saturday, officials said. The attack highlights the challenges facing Afghan security forces as foreign troops are gradually withdrawn and the emboldened Taliban launch more attacks. The militants and army forces were exchanging sporadic gunfire Saturday at Camp Bastion in the southern province of Helmand as fighting continued for a third day, said Gen. ... |
| Arabs set to call for U.N. Security Council vote on Palestinian state | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers met on Saturday to agree a draft resolution setting a deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state and to agree on a date to present it to the United Nations Security Council for a vote. In October, the Palestinians informally shared a draft resolution with Arab states and some council members, calling for an end to Israeli occupation by November 2016. The text was not formally circulated to the full 15-nation Security Council, a move that can only be done by a council member. It was unclear at the time if it would be put to a vote. ... |
| Fifteen dead, 14 hurt in attack in China's Xinjiang - Xinhua | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed when a group threw explosives into a crowded street where vendors were selling food in China's restive region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Eleven were attackers who were killed by the police, the agency said, and 14 people were injured. The attackers also stabbed people in Friday's attack in Shache County, state-owned Xinjiang news website Tianshan News said. It said police found detonation devices, large knives and axes at the scene. ... |
| Gunmen storm compound in Afghan capital, exchange fire with police | | | KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a compound in the Afghan capital on Saturday and were exchanging fire with security forces, police said. The assault in Kabul's western Karte Seh district was the latest round in a particularly violent week for the capital as Taliban insurgents have stepped up operations ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops from Afghanistan at the end of next month. The target of Saturday's attack was not immediately clear, city police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said. ... |
| Lars von Trier, breaking silence, worries he can't make films now he's sober | |  COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish director Lars von Trier fears he won't be able to make more films because he has quit drinking alcohol and no longer uses drugs. "No creative expression of artistic value has ever been carried out by former alcoholics and drug addicts," von Trier told the newspaper Politiken. It was his first interview since Cannes film festival organisers banned him from their event in 2011 after he joked he was a Nazi at a news conference to promote his film Melancholia. The interview was a front page story in Politiken, a Danish broadsheet, and ran to seven pages inside. ...
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| Egyptian court drops case against Mubarak over 2011 protest deaths | |  By Ali Abdelaty and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has dropped its case against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters in the 2011 revolt that ended his three-decade rule. Mubarak, 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder the demonstrators, sowing chaos and creating a security vacuum during the 18-day revolt, but an appeals court ordered a retrial. His supporters erupted into celebration when the verdicts of that retrial - which also cleared Mubarak's former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six aides - were read out. ...
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| Police investigate reports of explosion near UK army barracks | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British police closed off a major motorway in northern England on Saturday after an explosion was heard near Britain's largest army training barracks. North Yorkshire Police said the report of the explosion was made at 0300 GMT in the Catterick area where more than 13,000 army personnel and their families are based. There were no reports of any injuries and police said they were still investigating the possible cause. "We don't know what it was, it was a report of somebody hearing an explosion," a police spokeswoman said. ... |
| Taliban fighters breach Helmand base, exchange fire with Afghan troops | | | KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants breached the perimeter of a huge former U.S. and British base handed over to the Afghan army last month and were fighting soldiers there on Saturday, officials said. The attack highlights the challenges facing Afghan security forces as foreign troops draw down to a small support mission and the emboldened Taliban launch more attacks. The militants and army forces were exchanging sporadic gunfire on Saturday morning at Camp Bastion in the southern province of Helmand as fighting entered a third day, said Gen. ... |
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