Aus police conduct raids across Sydney
Sydney: Australian police on Thursday searched several properties across Sydney, as part of a ongoing counter-terrorism investigation but not related to the deadly cafe siege earlier this week, officials said.
11th Sierra leonean doctor dies from Ebola
Freetown: One of Sierra leone’s most senior physicians died on Thursday from Ebola, the 11th doctor in the country to succumb to the disease, a health official said.
41 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced
Cairo: At least 41 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were sentenced on Thursday from one to 15 years in prison in Egypt for torching five churches, the Judges Club and commercial shops during clashes with the country’s Army in August last year.
Heavy snow kills five, disrupts travel in Japan
Tokyo: At least five people have died in heavy snow that has blanketed swathes of Japan, reports said on Thursday, with more than two metres lying in some places and more forecast.
4K birds culled in Japan due to flu outbreak
Tokyo: About 4,000 birds were slaughtered in Japan after an avian flu outbreak was confirmed in a poultry farm in the southern island of Kyushu, authorities reported. This is the first outbreak detected since April this year when a similar warning ended in killing of around 110,000 poultry.
Executions in US dip to 20-year low
Washington: Executions in the US this year fell to their lowest point in two decades, the Death Penalty Information Centre said.