U.S. military planes carry out strikes near Iraq's Haditha Dam

Saturday 6 September 2014

TBILISI (Reuters) - The United States has begun carrying out air strikes near Iraq's Haditha Dam which was under threat from Islamic State militants, a U.S defense official said on Sunday.















Myanmar cancels by-elections

YANGON September 7 (Reuters) - Myanmar has called off an election scheduled for the end of this year to fill 35 vacated seats in parliament, the Union Election Commission announced on Sunday.


With sedition dragnet, Malaysia takes step back to Mahathir era

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities are carrying out the broadest crackdown on the political opposition and social activists since the era of strongman leader Mahathir Mohamad, as traditionalists in the long-ruling ethnic Malay party appear to gain the upper hand.















Police violence, abiding grief for China families of missing on Malaysia jet

BEIJING (Reuters) - Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, relatives of those lost, desperate for any hint of what happened, say Chinese authorities have become openly hostile toward them.


Supporters of Scottish independence take narrow poll lead for first time

LONDON (Reuters) - Supporters of Scottish independence have taken their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began, which indicates a real possibility that they might win, according to a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times newspaper.















Somalia's al Shabaab name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. air strike this week and named a new leader, promising "great distress" to its enemies.


Libya says Sudanese war plane loaded with ammunition for Tripoli enters its airspace

BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - Libya said a Sudanese military transport plane bound for a Tripoli airport under control of an armed group had entered its airspace, a government statement said on Saturday.


 

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