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| Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange artillery fire | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds towards North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Seoul - the first exchange of fire in 10 months. North Korea did not return fire but warned Seoul in a letter that it would take military action if the South did not stop the loudspeaker broadcasts along the border within 48 hours, the South's Defence Ministry said. |
| Greek PM to resign, seek snap election in September | |  By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will resign on Thursday to pave the way for early elections on Sept. 20, government officials said, hoping to quell a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal support for a bailout programme. Tsipras's decision to return to the ballot box after seven bruising months in power deepens political uncertainty on the very day Greece began receiving funds under its third bailout programme with foreign creditors. "The aim is to hold elections on Sept. 20," a government source said after Tsipras held talks with his advisers.
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| Germany charges suspected U.S and Russian spy with treason | | | German prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged a former employee of the BND foreign intelligence agency with treason and suspect he gave secrets to both the United States and Russia up until last year. The arrest last year of the man, identified as Markus R., chilled relations between Berlin and Washington, the closest of allies during the Cold War, and followed revelations of extensive snooping on Germany by the U.S. National Security Agency. Arrested in July last year on suspicion of spying for the Americans, he was charged on Aug. 11 this year on two counts of treason, breaking official secrets and corruption, said prosecutors. |
| Pakistan bans film on Mumbai attacks after accused mastermind protests | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday banned an Indian film about the 2008 Mumbai attacks in response to a petition filed by the man New Delhi accuses of masterminding the killing of 166 people over three days. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba which the United Nations has listed as a terrorist organisation, petitioned the court to ban the Kabir Khan-directed feature film "Phantom" on the basis that it maligns Pakistan and vilifies Saeed and his current organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The Lahore High Court issued a ban on Thursday, Saeed's lawyer said.
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| Greece to hold early elections on Sept 20 - source | | | Greece is likely to hold early elections on Sept. 20, a Greek government official told reporters on Thursday. "The aim is to hold elections on Sept. 20," a government source said after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met senior party officials and ministers to discuss the government's next move. Tsipras had been expected to seek early elections to quell a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal support to implement a tough bailout programme. |
| Best of enemies: Blatter-Platini rift to shape FIFA election | |  By Simon Evans and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - An increasingly bitter rift between FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA chief Michel Platini looks set to define the campaign to elect the next leader of soccer's corruption-plagued world governing body. The tense relationship between the Swiss and the Frenchman, once described by Blatter as being "like father and son", has descended in recent days into open conflict. "Blatter will do whatever he can to stop Platini becoming president of FIFA," said a former senior official with the organisation.
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| Four Palestinian Hamas militants abducted in Egypt's Sinai - sources | | | GAZA/ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said. Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting militant groups seeking to topple the Cairo government, an allegation the movement denies. Hamas warned in a statement that the abductions could strain ties with Egypt, which faces a serious security challenge from Islamist militants. |
| Videos show Libyan officials threatening jailed Gaddafi son | |  By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - New videos show Libyan security officials threatening Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi in an effort to force him to talk, two weeks after footage emerged showing guards beating him in the same Tripoli jail. Saadi has been held in Tripoli's Hadba prison since he was extradited last year from Niger, on charges over the killing of a football player when he was head of the Libyan soccer federation during the rule of his father, and other crimes. After the first video emerged, the Tripoli government invited journalists to see Saadi in his cell last week to prove he was being well-treated.
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| Pistorius parole ruling could take four months - South African government | |  By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's parole review board has up to four months to conclude its decision on when Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison, a Justice Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Paralympic gold medallist Pistorius, 28, was due to be released into house arrest on Friday after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend, model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. Justice Minister Michael Masutha, however, on Wednesday blocked his proposed release because he said the decision was made without legal basis, an intervention the Pistorius family said left them "shocked and disappointed".
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| Islamic State claims Cairo courthouse bomb which wounded 30 | |  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 30 people, including 8 policemen, near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb 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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| Greek PM poised to seek snap election to quell party rebellion | |  By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to seek early elections, state television said on Thursday, hoping to quell a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal support to implement a tough bailout programme. Ministers have openly debated for days about what the government should do after a large number of hard left Syriza lawmakers refused to back the 86 billion euro ($96 billion)bailout in parliament on Friday. Tsipras - who remains popular in Greece and would be widely expected to return to power if elections were held now - was huddling with senior advisers on Thursday afternoon to decide his next move, a government official said.
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| Iran's top security council holds back on nuclear deal review | |  The secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) indicated on Thursday that it has nearly finished examining Tehran's landmark nuclear deal with world powers but will announce no conclusion before the U.S. Congress does. The SNSC and parliament are both perusing the text of the July 14 pact mandating Iran to curb its nuclear work in exchange for a removal of sanctions, mirroring Congress which has the right to approve or reject it in a vote to be taken by Sept. 17. "We are in the final stages of examining the deal in the Supreme National Security Council," SNSC secretary Ali Shamkhani was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.
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| Malaysia arrests 10 suspected of Islamic State links | | | Malaysian police on Thursday said they had arrested and were investigating 10 Malaysians suspected of links to Islamic State, among them six members of the country's security forces. Although the Southeast Asian country has not seen any significant militant attacks, it has arrested nearly 100 citizens this year on suspicion of links to Islamic State. Authorities have identified 39 Malaysians in Syria and Iraq. |
| Pakistan cancels Commonwealth conference to highlight 'Kashmir issue' | | | By ASAD HASHIM ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has cancelled the Commonwealth parliamentary conference due to tensions with India over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, officials said on Thursday, days before the two nuclear-armed neighbours are due to meet. The conference, to be held in the Pakistani capital on Sept. 30, has been cancelled because legislators from Indian-administered Kashmir have planned to attend, said parliamentary speaker Ayaz Sadiq. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars since independence in 1947 over Kashmir. |
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