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| More racial unrest in St. Louis after police kill black suspect | | | St. Louis police fatally shot a black teenager on Wednesday who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions first sparked by the killing of an unarmed black teen in another Missouri town a year ago. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said the shooting took place when young black men ran out the back door of a house where officers were carrying out a search warrant. Officers ordered the pair to stop in an alley behind the house. |
| Ousted Myanmar ruling party boss survives parliament vote | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ousted ruling party chief narrowly survived a critical test on Thursday, when lawmakers voted to suspend discussion of a controversial bill that could have hastened his downfall amid the biggest political shake-up since the end of military rule. The vote highlighted the support in parliament for Shwe Mann, who was dramatically removed as chairman of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) by President Thein Sein last week but remains speaker of the lower house. It's maybe the second or third time ever that the Myanmar parliament has been so split.
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| South Korea fires rounds at North in response to shell | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said it fired tens of artillery rounds towards North Korea on Thursday after the North launched a shell towards a South Korean loudspeaker that had been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, as tension escalated on the peninsula. North Korea did not return fire but later warned Seoul in a letter that it would take military action if the South did not remove the loudspeakers within 48 hours, the South's defence ministry said. In the letter, North Korea's armed forces called the South's propaganda broadcasts a "major challenge" to the North. |
| Greece makes debt repayment, minister calls for snap polls | |  By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece made a crucial 3.2 billion euro debt repayment on Thursday using newly released bailout funds, a government source said, as a senior minister argued for rapid elections following a rebellion in the ruling party. The repayment to the European Central Bank marked another step for Greece away from near financial collapse, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must now tackle a political crisis after anti-bailout rebels robbed his government of its parliamentary majority. Greece came close to the economic abyss and exit from the euro zone in late June as Tsipras tried to extract concessions which the bloc's finance ministers refused to grant.
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| Saudis execute two Chadians for al Qaeda killings | | | Saudi Arabia executed two men from Chad on Thursday for their part in a militant attack a decade ago, its Interior Ministry said. Issa Saleh Hassan Barkaj and Ishaq Issa Ahmed Shakila were executed in Mecca on Thursday morning, the ministry said in a statement on Saudi Press Agency. Death sentences in Saudi Arabia are usually carried out by public beheading. |
| Australia detains 7 men suspected of trying to join militants | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Authorities have detained seven young Australian men as they were attempting to fly to the Middle East, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday, over suspicions they wanted to join militant Islamist groups. Australia is on high alert for attacks by radicalised Muslims, including home-grown militants returning from fighting in the Middle East. "We have stopped at the airport seven young Australians who were planning to travel to the Middle East, it seems, to join terrorist groups over there," Abbott told reporters in Canberra. |
| Islamic State claims Cairo courthouse bomb which wounded 29 | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 29 people near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb early on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai Province, said the bomb was a reprisal for the execution of six of its members convicted of carrying out an attack north of the Egyptian capital last year. In May, Egypt executed six members of Sinai Province for attacking soldiers near Cairo in 2014.
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| International terrorists "unlikely" responsible for Thai bomb | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - International terrorists were not suspected of a bomb attack in Bangkok this week that killed 20 people and China was not the target, Thai authorities said on Thursday, as police said they believed at least 10 plotters were involved. Authorities have not blamed any group for carrying out Thailand's worst bombing. "Security agencies have cooperated with agencies from allied countries and have come to the preliminary conclusion that the incident is unlikely to be linked to international terrorism," said Colonel Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for Thailand's ruling junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order.
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| Sirisena's party offers to form coalition govt in Sri Lanka | |  The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) offered on Thursday to form a coalition government with this week's winner of parliamentary elections, in a move that will pave the way for President Maithripala Sirisena to restart his stalled reform agenda. Sirisena had called the elections early after loyalists of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, also from the SLFP, had blocked some of his reforms to make government more accountable and simplify Sri Lanka's complex election rules.
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