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| Eight soldiers killed in southeast Turkey bomb attack - military | | | Eight Turkish soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on their vehicle by Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the military said, intensifying conflict after the breakdown of a two-year ceasefire last month. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants planted explosives on a highway in the province of Siirt and detonated them around 1110 GMT, the general staff said in a statement, as security forces clashed with the PKK across the mainly Kurdish southeast. Security sources said PKK fighters had killed four Turkish soldiers in clashes in Diyarbakir province since Tuesday as a peace process launched by the state and the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012 unravelled. |
| Erdogan says Turkey is "heading rapidly" towards new election | |  Turkey is heading rapidly towards a new election and only the "will of the people" can break a political deadlock after the ruling AK Party failed to form a working government, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formally ended attempts to find a junior coalition partner on Tuesday after weeks of talks with opposition parties failed, handing the mandate back to Erdogan and making a snap election almost inevitable. "Because of the failure to form a government, we have to seek a solution with the will of the people ... so we are heading rapidly towards an election again," Erdogan said in a speech to local officials, broadcast live on television.
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| Thai police grapple for firm clues to Bangkok bomb suspects | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Forty-eight hours after a bomb blast tore through a shrine teeming with tourists in central Bangkok, Thai police appear to have few firm clues about who was responsible for the bloodiest attack the city has seen. Making their job all the harder, crucial forensic evidence may have been lost or compromised in the chaotic aftermath of Monday evening's blast. The strongest evidence the police have so far is grainy CCTV footage of a man who left a backpack at the Erawan Shrine shortly before the explosion, which killed 20 people and injured more than 120.
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| German lawmakers back Greek bailout despite record rebellion | |  By Paul Carrel and Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers voted in favour of a third Greek bailout on Wednesday despite a record rebellion among Chancellor Angela Merkel's own conservatives that suggested she would struggle to return to parliament to seek any further aid for Athens. Heeding a call from Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to give Greece the chance for a new start, conservative lawmakers rebelled in far fewer numbers than some in the party had predicted. Resentment about sending more aid to Athens runs deep in Germany which has already contributed more than any other euro zone country to Greece's two previous bailouts since 2010.
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| Thai police hunt "foreign" man, two others for Bangkok blast | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Wednesday that a suspect captured by CCTV cameras minutes before a bomb exploded at Bangkok's Erawan shrine was a foreigner, and his appearance suggested he might be from Europe or the Middle East. Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri also said investigators were now convinced two other men seen on the grainy video footage were accomplices.
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| Two detained after shooting outside Istanbul palace - news agency | | | Turkish police detained two suspects with automatic weapons after a shooting on Wednesday near the entrance to Istanbul's Dolmabahce palace, popular with tourists and home to the prime minister's Istanbul offices, the Dogan news agency said. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television. Turkey has been in a heightened state of alert since launching a "synchronised war on terror" last month, which included air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. |
| Turkish police detain two armed suspects after Istanbul shooting - Dogan | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police on Wednesday detained two armed suspects not far from the scene of a shooting at the Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul, Dogan News Agency said. There were no reports of casualties, the agency said. Earlier, gunfire was heard earlier near the entrance to the Ottoman-era building, which is popular with tourists and also houses the prime minister's Istanbul offices. (Reporting by Daren Butler; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| Mali's Islamist conflict spreads as new militant group emerges | | | By Emma Farge and Adama Diarra BAMAKO/SEVARE (Reuters) - Imam Elhadji Sekou Ba was one of the few people in his village of Barkerou who dared to speak out against the rise of Islamist militants in central Mali, denouncing in his sermons the young men taking up arms in the name of religion. Locals suspect the killing was carried out by the Massina Liberation Front (MLF), a new group blamed for a wave of attacks that is shifting Mali's three-year-old Islamist conflict from the remote desert north ever closer to its populous south. The emergence of the new group, recruiting among central Mali's marginalised Fulani ethnic minority, has sown panic among residents, forced some officials to flee, and undermined the efforts of a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to stabilise the West African state. |
| China blast warehouse execs used connections to get safety approvals - Xinhua | |  By Natalie Thomas TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Wednesday appeared to convict executives of a company whose chemical warehouse exploded last week killing 114 people of slipshod practices at least, saying they used connections to obtain fire safety and environmental approvals. Public anger against the government has surged in the northeastern port of Tianjin among residents of apartments near the blasts who believed authorities neglected to properly police the firm, Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai International Logistics. "My connections are with police and fire.
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| Thai police issue arrest warrant for "foreign man" seen in Bangkok blast footage | | | Thai police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for an individual they described as a "foreign man", in connection with a bomb blast in Bangkok that killed 20 people, including many foreigners. A court approved the arrest warrant, said Thai police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri. |
| Tsipras said not to have decided on early Greek elections, left rebels turn up heat | |  By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has yet to make up his mind on calling early elections, a government minister said on Wednesday, following a rift in the ruling party over the country's new bailout deal. The comment came as former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who leads hard left rebels in Tsipras' Syriza party, repeated his opposition to the bailout and signalled he might refuse to support Tsipras in any confidence vote. Ministers have spoken openly about the possibility of a parliamentary confidence vote leading to elections since Tsipras had to rely on opposition lawmakers to win approval on Friday for the 86 billion euro bailout deal.
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| Police say two other men seen in Bangkok bomb footage also suspects | | | Thai police said on Wednesday that two other men seen in CCTV footage near the scene of a bomb blast that killed 20 people in Bangkok are also suspects, bringing the number of suspects police have said they are actively looking for to three. "The person in red and the person in white are also suspects," police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said in a televised interview, referring to two men seen in grainy closed-circuit television footage along with a man in a yellow t-shirt who police believe is linked to the attack. |
| Global court to reopen obstruction case against Kenya | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges will reopen a hearing into whether to take action against Kenya over allegations it obstructed investigations into its President Uhuru Kenyatta, after an appeals court ordered them on Wednesday to reconsider their rejection of the case. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) accused Nairobi last year of failing to send in evidence linked to charges Kenyatta orchestrated a wave of deadly violence after 2007 elections. The prosecution asked judges to refer Kenya to the United Nations, which could impose sanctions, or the court's overseeing body.
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| Thai police release sketch of Bangkok bomb suspect | |  Thai police released a sketch on Wednesday of the main suspect in a deadly bomb blast in Bangkok that killed at least 20 people, more than half of them foreigners. The sketch shows a fair-skinned man with thick, medium-length black hair, a wispy beard and black glasses. On Tuesday, a day after the bombing at a religious shrine in Bangkok's busy Ratchaprasong commercial district, police released grainy closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of a young man wearing a yellow t-shirt.
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| Poll victor to build Sri Lankan unity government | |  General election victor Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday called on Sri Lankans to unite as he set about the task of forming a national unity government that will seek to heal the divisions of the past. In his first major statement since his United National Party (UNP) foiled ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's comeback bid, Wickremesinghe struck a note of reconciliation. "We can achieve unity, progress in this country if we work together." Wickremesinghe, 66, who has led a minority government since President Maithripala Sirisena beat Rajapaksa in a presidential election in January, said he expected to be sworn in as prime minister.
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