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| Russia launches air strikes in Syria | |  By Andrew Osborn and Phil Stewart MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia said it launched air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament's unanimous backing to intervene to prop up the Kremlin's closest Middle East ally. Moscow gave Washington just an hour's notice of the strikes, which set in train Russia's biggest play in the region since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, a U.S. official said.
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| Series of bombs in southwest China kills at least seven | |  A series of package bombs exploded on Wednesday in the southwest China city of Liuzhou, killing at least seven people and injuring 51, state media said. The official Xinhua news agency said police had determined the blasts were a "criminal" act and identified the suspect as a 33-year-old local man surnamed Wei, but added the investigation was continuing. Media images showed a collapsed building, smoke and streets strewn with rubble in Liuzhou in Guangxi region.
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| VW readies external inquiry into emissions scandal - source | |  By Andreas Cremer BERLIN (Reuters) - Senior Volkswagen officials will examine on Wednesday findings from an internal investigation into its rigging of vehicle emission tests and prepare for an external inquiry, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Europe's largest carmaker has admitted cheating in diesel emissions tests in the United States. Germany's transport minister says it also manipulated tests in Europe, where Volkswagen sells about 40 percent of its vehicles.
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| Troops from U.S.-led mission fight Taliban near Afghan city | |  By Hamid Shalizi and Kay Johnson KABUL (Reuters) - Special forces from the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan battled insurgents on Wednesday near the northern city of Kunduz that was captured by the Taliban this week, a coalition spokesman and Afghan official said. It was the first report of on-the-ground clashes between Taliban militants and foreign troops supporting their Afghan allies during three days of sometimes heavy fighting for control of the strategic city of 300,000. Kunduz is the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban since the hardline Islamist movement was toppled from power in 2001.
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| Iran's leader condemns Saudi Arabia over haj crush, demands bodies of Iranian pilgrims | |  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of hampering the transfer of bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a crush at haj last week, adding fuel to a growing spat over the disaster in which nearly 800 people died. Iran has been the most vocal in its criticism of Saudi Arabia for the disaster last Thursday, in which at least 239 Iranians were killed. Tehran says 200 of its pilgrims are still missing.
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| Hindu mob lynches Muslim rumoured to have killed a cow | | | By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Hindu mob killed a Muslim man in India over rumours that he butchered a cow, unleashing violence that police on Wednesday blamed on tension fuelled by politicians who seek strict protection of an animal many Hindus consider sacred. While many members of India's majority Hindu community see cows as holy, beef is widely eaten by Hindus in parts of the south, as well as by members of lower castes and minority Muslims and Christians. Tougher measures to safeguard cows are often used as a rallying call by politicians seeking to win Hindu votes, sometimes leading to Hindu-Muslim riots. |
| U.S. State Dept due to release latest batch of Clinton emails | |  The latest batch of emails from the private server Hillary Clinton used as U.S. secretary of state is due to be released on Wednesday, days after she lamented that months of unflattering headlines about the setup were largely out of her control. A federal judge has ordered the State Department to release all of Clinton's work emails in monthly batches through to January 2016 after a Vice News reporter sued the department under freedom of information laws. Criticism about Clinton's decision to set up an email account connected to a server in her New York home for her work as the nation's top diplomat have dogged her for more than six months, sometimes overshadowing her campaign to become the Democratic nominee for the November 2016 presidential election.
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| After billions spent on haj safety, Saudis lost control of deadly crowd | |  By Katie Paul and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Pilgrims reported feeling the hands of their relatives slip away into the crowd on Thursday morning when a crush at the Mina camp in Mecca killed at least 769 in the deadliest haj disaster in a generation. Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars on making the world's biggest gathering of people safe. You saw parents leaving their children and the elderly to survive," said a Nigerian survivor, Dahiru Shittu Ibrahim, 37.
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| Close ally of Philippines' Aquino faces graft investigation | | | A top adviser to Philippine President Benigno Aquino is facing a corruption investigation, a government agency said on Wednesday, a potential blow for the president who has built a reputation as a graft fighter. The anti-graft agency Ombudsman said the adviser, Budget Secretary Florencio "Butch" Abad, and his deputy, Mario Relampagos, were "facing preliminary investigation for technical malversation and administrative charges". Aquino had made fighting corruption a priority of his administration but he has struggled to keep scandals involving allies and friends at arm's length. |
| Brother of disgraced former top China officer sacked | |  A younger brother of a disgraced former senior Chinese military officer, who has been accused of corruption, has been sacked from his position as a senior provincial official, state media said on Wednesday. Guo Boquan has been removed as head of the civil affairs department of the northwestern province of Shaanxi, the official Xinhua news agency said, without providing any details. Chinese media reports have identified him as a younger brother of Guo Boxiong, who was a vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission until he retired in 2012.
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