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| Republican foreign policy veterans rebuke Trump world view | |  By Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 70 Republican foreign policy veterans have signed a letter pledging to oppose Donald Trump and saying his proposals would undermine U.S. security, in the latest sign of fissures between the Republican presidential front-runner and the party establishment. "Mr. ...
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| Top Pakistani religious body rules women's protection law "un-Islamic" | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalises violence against women to be "un-Islamic." The Women's Protection Act, passed by Pakistan's largest province of Punjab last week, gives unprecedented legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence. "The whole law is wrong," Muhammad Khan Sherani, the head of the Council of Islamic Ideology said at a news conference, citing verses from the Koran to point out that the law was "un-Islamic." The 54-year-old council is known for its controversial decisions. It also sets punishments of up to a year in jail for violators of court orders related to domestic violence, with that period rising to two years for repeat offenders.
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| Syrian truce fragile but holding overall - U.N. envoy | |  By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's cessation of hostilities is holding but remains fragile after six days in which incidents have been contained in the provinces of Homs, Hama, Latakia and Damascus, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. De Mistura said that his office was working closely with Russia and the United States to investigate any fighting and "to quickly intervene in order to make sure that the parties on the ground defuse the situation". "Unfortunately we have to admit - like in every cessation of hostilities or ceasefire and in particular in this one - there are still a number of places where fighting has continued, including parts of Hama, Homs, Latakia and Damascus.
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| Former mayor of Pakistan's richest city launches new party to take on rival | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A former mayor of Karachi, Pakistan's largest and richest city, returned home from self-imposed exile on Thursday and launched a new political party to challenge the iron grip of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on the city. The MQM political party is under pressure from the paramilitary Rangers force, which launched an armed operation in the southern port city late in 2013 to tackle soaring crime rates. Since then, hundreds of MQM workers have been arrested and a Pakistani court has issued an arrest warrant for party boss Altaf Husain for threatening the army in a television address.
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| Film depicting horrors faced by comfort women for Japan army tops Korea box office | |  By Jee Heun Kahng SEOUL (Reuters) - A film based on the horrors experienced by "comfort women" in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, whose doubtful commercial appeal meant it took 14 years and the contributions of 75,000 individual donors to complete, is top of the box office in South Korea. Cho Jung-rae, who directed "Spirits' Homecoming", was inspired in 2002 to make the film when he saw the drawing "Burning Women", made during a therapy session at a shelter for elderly former comfort women by Kang Il-chul, who said she was taken away by Japanese soldiers when she was 16. The term comfort women is a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels.
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| Nanny who beheaded Russian girl cites revenge for Putin's Syria strikes | |  By Maria Tsvetkova and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman who brandished the severed head of a four-year-old girl in her care outside a Moscow metro station has said she beheaded the child to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria. In video posted online on Thursday and circulated by several prominent bloggers, 38-year-old Gulchekhra Bobokulova from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan gave her first detailed explanation of an incident that state TV channels chose not to report. "I took revenge against those who spilled blood," Bobokulova told someone asking her questions off camera.
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| Kremlin: Nanny who says beheaded Russian child to avenge Syria strikes 'mentally unsound' | |  A Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday that remarks by a woman who said she had beheaded a child in Moscow to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria should be regarded as those of someone who is mentally unsound. Gulchekhra Bobokulova, of Muslim-majority Uzbekistan, was shown in video footage posted online earlier on Thursday as saying she had committed the crime because she was unhappy with President Vladimir Putin's decision to launch air strikes in the Middle East.
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| Two women killed in police operation after attack on police in Istanbul | | | By Murad Sezer and Osman Orsal ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two female militants were killed by police when they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul on Thursday, local media and the Istanbul governor said. Two police officers were lightly wounded in the attack, Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters in televised comments. One of the women threw a grenade and the other opened fire with what appeared to be a machine gun as the riot police bus drove towards the entrance of a police station in the Bayrampasa district of Turkey's biggest city, footage from Dogan News Agency showed. |
| Two Italian hostages probably killed in Libya attack - Italy | | | Two Italian civilians held hostages in Libya were probably killed in fighting in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, the Italian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Libyan security forces said they had killed seven suspected Islamic State fighters in a raid on a militant hideout in Sabratha on Wednesday, and later released photographs of two Western men who had also apparently been killed in the attack. Italy's Foreign Ministry said the men might be two of the four employees of the Italian construction company Bonatti who were kidnapped last July near a compound owned by oil and gas group Eni. |
| What to expect from China's annual meeting of parliament | |  Around 3,000 delegates to the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress, will meet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on March 5 for a session that will last for around 12 days. Here is an overview of China's top legislature and this year's meeting: ISSUES: The top of the agenda this year is the new five-year plan, which will map out economic goals for the next five years. Exact details of what will be discussed or announced, including economic growth targets and the budget, are kept tightly under wraps ahead of the session.
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