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| North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchange of fire with South | | Friday, August 21, 2015 3:11 AM | |
|  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops onto a war footing from 5 p.m on Friday after Pyongyang issued an ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-North propaganda broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action. Tension on the divided peninsula escalated on Thursday when North Korea fired shells into South Korea to protest against the loudspeaker broadcasts from the Korean border. The North's shelling came after it had demanded last weekend that South Korea end the broadcasts or face military action - a relatively rare case of it following up on its frequent threats against the South.
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| Josh Duggar admits cheating on wife after Ashley Madison hack | | Friday, August 21, 2015 1:27 AM | |
|  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former reality TV star Josh Duggar on Thursday admitted cheating on his wife after reports that he had subscribed to the Ashley Madison affair website, apologising for being "the biggest hypocrite ever." "While espousing faith and family values, I have been unfaithful to my wife," Duggar, 27, a former campaigner for family values who appeared on the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting," said in a statement posted on his family's website. "The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures," he added, calling himself the "biggest hypocrite ever." The Discovery Communications-owned network last month cancelled "19 Kids," after disclosures in May that Duggar had sexually abused four of his sisters when he was a teenager, one of whom was under 10 years old at the time.
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| Japan Inc wants Abe to focus on economy, not military bills - Reuters poll | | Friday, August 21, 2015 1:08 AM | |
|  By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Izumi Nakagawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Most Japanese firms oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to push through legislation next month that will expand the country's military reach, saying the campaign does not have the support of the people and the economy should take priority, a Reuters survey shows. Abe has said he is determined the bills, which would end a ban on fighting to defend a friendly country under attack, be enacted in the current session of parliament which ends Sept. 27. Some also said it would be a violation of Japan's pacifist constitution.
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| Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange fire | | | By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea fired a barrage of artillery rounds into North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Seoul, moves that raised tensions on the divided peninsula. Washington urged Pyongyang to halt any "provocative" actions in the wake of the first exchange of fire between the two Koreas since last October. 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 broadcasts along the border within 48 hours, the South's Defence Ministry said. |
| Islamic State destroys Syrian monastery, moves Christian captives - monitor | | | Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month. The group has also transferred several dozen Christians, captured during its offensive, to a location near its stronghold in northeastern Syria, the monitor said. Militants used bulldozers to raze the monastery in the town of Qaryatain, which they had captured in early August, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. |
| Brazil's lower house speaker Cunha charged in corruption probe | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress was charged by prosecutors with corruption and money laundering on Thursday, becoming the first sitting politician to be charged in a burgeoning kickback and bribery scandal. Eduardo Cunha, a member of Brazil's largest political party, was accused of taking a $5 million bribe related to contracts for two drillships built for state-run oil company Petrobras , the focus of the country's biggest-ever corruption scandal. The prosecutor's office said it also laid unspecified charges against former president Fernando Collor de Mello, now a senator.
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| New York looks to curb topless women, Mickey and Thor in Times Square | |  By Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City created a task force on Thursday to examine how it can rein in topless women and costumed cartoon and superhero characters who officials believe are aggressively soliciting tips after posing for tourists' pictures in Times Square. "Over the past several months, serious concerns have been raised about both the appropriateness of topless individuals in Times Square, as well as aggressive solicitation by topless individuals and costumed characters that often times becomes harassment of New Yorkers and visitors alike," Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said. Convened by the mayor and co-chaired by New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton and Planning Commissioner Carl Weisbrod, the task force will report its findings by Oct. 1.
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| Greek opposition party leader to get mandate to form government Friday | | | ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's main opposition party leader Vangelis Meimarakis will meet the country's president Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday morning to receive a mandate to form a new government, an official from Meimarakis' New Democracy party said. Given the arithmetic of the current parliament, New Democracy has little chance of pulling a coalition together after Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, making national elections the most likely outcome. (Reporting by Renee Maltezou in Athens; Writing by Greg Roumeliotis; Editing by James Dalgleish) |
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