SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of 15 senior officials this year as punishment for challenging his authority, South Korea’s spy agency told a closed-door parliament meeting on Wednesday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – France is investigating allegations of child abuse in Central African Republic by soldiers that it sent there to stem an outbreak of sectarian killing, officials said yesterday.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – All cars and light vans in Europe will have to be fitted with automatic emergency calling devices from April 2018 under new rules approved by European Union lawmakers on Tuesday, which could cut road deaths by 10 percent a year.
CILACAP, Indonesia, (Reuters) – An Indonesian firing squad executed eight convicted drug-traffickers from several countries yesterday, prompting Australia to recall its envoy to Jakarta and bringing an angry reaction from Brazil.
LOME, (Reuters) – Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe won re-election to a third term based on provisional results with more than 1.2 million votes or 58.75 percent of the total, the West African country’s election commission head said yesterday.
JHARIBAR/SINDHUPALCHOWK, Nepal, (Reuters) – People stranded in remote villages and towns across Nepal were still waiting for aid and relief to arrive yesterday, four days after a devastating earthquake destroyed buildings and roads and killed more than 4,600 people.
BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – Police and National Guard troops moved to disperse protesters in Baltimore last night after a curfew took effect a day after the worst rioting in the United States in years.
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iranian patrol boats intercepted a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday and forced it into Iranian territorial waters by firing shots across its bow, prompting the U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Black Americans who switched to a high-fibre African diet for just two weeks saw a dramatic drop in risk factors for colon cancer, a study published yesterday found.
KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – The death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake could reach 10,000, the prime minister said today, as residents frustrated by the government’s slow response used their bare hands to dig for signs of their loved ones.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Shock turned to anger in Nepal today, as some of the tens of thousands of people stricken by the weekend’s devastating earthquake expressed frustration at what they said was their government’s slow response to the crisis.
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to address the violence in Baltimore, his office said yesterday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and five other major powers are closer than ever to a deal with Iran that would end a 12-year-old nuclear standoff, though more tough negotiations lie ahead, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – The chief of Pakistan’s main spy agency is spearheading a campaign to wrest control of the teeming port city of Karachi from a powerful political party, the military’s latest, and some say boldest, foray into civilian life in recent years.
KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – Thousands of desperate Nepalese huddled under tents and sought scarce food and medical supplies last night, two days after a massive quake killed more than 2,500 people, as overwhelmed authorities struggled to care for the wounded and homeless.
BUJUMBURA, (Reuters) – Burundian police shot dead two protesters and wounded at least one other yesterday, the Red Cross said, in demonstrations against the president seeking a third term which critics say would violate a constitutional limit of two terms.
BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – Baltimore’s mayor and police yesterday again blamed outside agitators for violence and vandalism that flared during a mostly peaceful protest over last week’s death of a young black man who sustained an unexplained spinal injury while under arrest.
BUJUMBURA, (Reuters) – Burundian riot police today forcibly dispersed crowds protesting against the president seeking a third term, a decision critics said is unconstitutional and could rekindle turmoil after a decade of calm in the East African state.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal urged countries to send aid to help it cope with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed nearly 1,400 people, a toll predicted to rise as rescuers used their hands to dig for survivors among the rubble on Sunday.
SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – One by one, Japan is turning off the lights at the giant oil-fired power plants that propelled it to the ranks of the world’s top industrialised nations.