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| U.S. air strike kills Islamic State leader in Afghanistan |
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| By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The top Islamic State commander in Afghanistan has been killed by a U.S. air strike in the country's east, officials said on Saturday, the fourth ex-Taliban who declared loyalty to the Middle East-based militants to be assassinated within a week. Hafez Saeed was the leader of Islamic State in the "so-called Khorasan state", Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said, referring to an old term the militants use to describe Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
| Serbia decries "murder attempt" after PM chased from Srebrenica burial |
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 By Daria Sito-Sucic and Maja Zuvela POTOCARI, Bosnia (Reuters) - A mass burial marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre was marred on Saturday when a crowd of mourners chased Serbia's prime minister from the cemetery, underscoring the depth of anger over Belgrade's denial of the crime as genocide. Bodyguards drove back a crowd that turned on Aleksandar Vucic moments after he entered the cemetery and laid flowers to 8,000 Muslim men and boys, executed after the U.N. safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb forces towards the end of the 1992-95 war. Serbia, which backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war with men and money, condemned the attack as an "assassination attempt".
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| In wake of U.S. ruling, Taiwanese rally for gay marriage |
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 By Michael Gold TAIPEI (Reuters) - Thousands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei on Saturday, months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. Protesters waved rainbow flags, lit candles and shouted "gay votes are still votes" as they marched between parliament and the headquarters of Taiwan's two main political parties. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalising gay marriage has given a renewed push to the movement in Taiwan, where a marriage bill has been held up in parliament ahead of January elections.
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi says party will run in election |
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 By Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Saturday her party would contest a national election in November, ending months of uncertainty about its participation in a vote that will be crucial for the scope of the country's reforms. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has laid the groundwork for running in the Nov. 8 parliamentary poll, but her National League for Democracy (NLD) had held out until now to commit to a ballot that is being billed as Myanmar's first legitimate election in 25 years. "This decision to run in the election was made to continue the unfinished democratisation process for the country," Suu Kyi told a news conference in the capital Naypyitaw.
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| Suicide bomber in burqa kills 14 people in Chad capital |
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| By Madjiasra Nako and Moumine Ngarmbassa N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - A man dressed in a woman's burqa blew himself up in the main market in Chad's capital N'Djamena early on Saturday, killing 14 people and injuring 74, a police spokesman said. "Our current count is 15 dead," police spokesman Paul Manga, said, a total which included the suicide bomber. |
| Stone-throwing crowd chases Serb PM from Srebrenica commemoration |
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| BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was chased out of a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday by a crowd throwing stones and bottles. It was not clear whether Vucic had left the site altogether, but his delegation was seen running for their cars on a hill above the cemetery. (Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
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