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| Bomb found under policeman's car in Northern Ireland | | | Police discovered a bomb under the car of a police officer in Northern Ireland early on Thursday that they said was powerful enough to cause death or serious injury. "This is a stark reminder that the threat against our Police Service and its employees remains at severe," Local District Commander Superintendent Mark McEwan said in a statement. Thousands were killed in Northern Ireland during three decades of conflict that pitted Republicans who wanted the province to join the Republic of Ireland against Unionists who wanted to keep it inside the United Kingdom. |
| Malaysian navy in contact with pirates aboard hijacked tanker Orkim Harmony | | | A Malaysian naval vessel has located the hijacked tanker Orkim Harmony in Vietnamese waters and is trying to persuade the pirates onboard to surrender, promising them they will be unharmed, Malaysian maritime officials said on Thursday. Both the crew and the cargo are safe, and the navy is in the midst of negotiations with the robbers, officials with the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said in a press briefing in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia's Chief of Navy Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar said on his Twitter account that at least eight perpetrators were on board the Orkim Harmony armed with pistols and machetes. |
| Gunman at large after killing 9 at black South Carolina church | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white gunman was still at large after killing nine people during a prayer service at an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on Thursday, describing the attack as a hate crime. Officers with dogs searched the streets for the suspect, whom police described as a 21-year-old white man with sandy blond hair, after gunfire erupted inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, Police Chief Gregory Mullen said. "To have an awful person come in and shoot them is inexplicable, obviously the most intolerable and unbelievable act possible," Charleston Mayor Joe Riley told reporters.
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| China says decision on HK electoral proposal to stand despite veto | |  China's parliament said on Thursday that its decision on Hong Kong electoral reforms issued last year will remain in force despite Hong Kong's legislature vetoing a China-vetted electoral reform package, state news agency Xinhua said. Xinhua did not give more details. Earlier, Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday a China-vetted electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh mass protests in the financial hub.
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| World Muslim body lends support to Qatar over 2022 World Cup | | | The world's largest Muslim organisation has thrown its weight behind Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup, hitting back at Western criticism of the Gulf Arab state's dealings with FIFA amid a corruption probe into world soccer's governing body. Swiss and U.S. authorities are investigating both Russia and Qatar's successful campaigns to stage the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. In a statement posted on its website, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) criticised what it said was "Western media tendentious campaigns" targeting OIC member, casting doubt on its right to host the event. |
| Hong Kong vetoes China-backed electoral reform proposal | |  By Donny Kwok and Yimou Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-vetted electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh mass protests in the financial hub. It will, however, be a blow to Beijing's Communist leaders, who had pressured and cajoled the city's pro-democracy lawmakers to back the blueprint that would have allowed a direct vote for the city's chief executive, but with only pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates on the ballot. "This veto has helped Hong Kong people send a clear message to Beijing...that we want a genuine choice, a real election," said pan-democratic lawmaker Alan Leong.
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| Four hurt in knife attack at Chinese market - police | | | A knife-wielding man injured four people, including one seriously, in southern China's Guangxi region on Thursday, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks that have raised public concern. Police in Beihai city detained a 30-year-old suspect over the early morning attack at a market, a statement on the city's police microblog said. Public sensitivity to knife attacks in China has heightened following a series of incidents, including a mass stabbing at a train station in March 2014 in the southwestern city of Kunming that left 31 dead. |
| Israel accuses U.N. children's rights envoy of 'improper conduct' | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel has accused a senior U.N. official of misconduct in preparing a report that harshly criticized the Israeli army over the 2014 Gaza war while leaving it off a blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children's rights in conflict. The U.N. Security Council will hold a public debate on Thursday to discuss the latest United Nations report on children and armed conflict. In it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "the unprecedented and unacceptable scale of the impact on children in 2014 raises grave concerns about Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law ... (and) excessive use of force." Although formally presented in Ban's name, the report was prepared by his envoy on children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui of Algeria.
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