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| Thai leaders pray for bomb dead; no sign of investigation progress | |  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai government officials and police chiefs attended a religious ceremony on Friday for the victims of the country's worst ever bombing but appeared no closer to determining who carried out the attack and why. The only solid evidence seems to be grainy security camera footage showing an unidentified young man apparently planting a backpack bomb at the Erawan shrine, one of Bangkok's top tourist attractions, on Monday evening. Twenty people were killed, 14 of them foreigners, including seven from mainland China and Hong Kong.
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| North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchange of fire with South | |  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 | |  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 | |  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 | | Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:57 PM | |
| | 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 | | Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:28 PM | |
| | 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 | | Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:28 PM | |
|  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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