Ugandan police arrests 2 top prez challengers
Kampala: Ugandan police on Thursday arrested two top opposition leaders and presidential candidates hoping to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni in elections next year, reports said.
Malaysia asks UN to set up MH17 tribunal
United Nations: Malaysia has circulated a draft UN resolution on establishing an international tribunal that it said would guarantee an independent trial for those behind the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine.
Indian-American jailed for running extortion ring
New York: An Indian-American has been jailed for more than 14 years and fined $1 million for running a massive extortion ring from India-based call centres in which he and his co-conspirators impersonated American officials and threatened to arrest victims unless they made payments.
Berlusconi sentenced to 3 yrs in bribery case
Rome: A court in Naples sentenced former Italian premier and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi to three years in prison for bribing a senator as part of a plot to destabilise a 2006-08 centre-left Government.
21 policemen injured in explosion in Egypt
Cairo: At least 21 Egyptian policemen were injured on Thursday after a roadside bomb targeting their bus exploded in the restive north Sinai province, officials said on Thursday.
36 killed in south Yemen attacks, air strikes
Aden: Yemeni fighters allied with exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi killed 15 rebels in a Thursday attack on their checkpoints in the country's southern Abyan province, a military source said. In second city Aden, 17 rebels were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition warplanes, according to pro-Hadi military sources. Aden's health chief Al-Khader laswar said 19 civilians, including three children and a woman, were killed and 115 others wounded since Tuesday in rebel rocket attacks on the city. Fighters belonging to the pro-Government Popular Resistance Committees in Abyan's Zinjibar attacked checkpoints of the 15th Infantry Brigade.