The British government held an emergency meeting Thursday after a string of crude explosive devices were sent to armed forces recruitment offices.
Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's COBRA emergencies committee after suspect packages were sent to seven offices in southeast England.
Full StoryPolice in London on Thursday arrested a fugitive killer from the armed Basque separatist movement ETA who is wanted by Spain, Spanish officials said.
Antonio Troitino, 56, was on conditional release from jail in England but Spain had maintained an extradition warrant for him.
Full StoryTurkish riot police on Thursday fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse some 2,000 protesters demanding the release of army officers jailed for plotting a coup.
"Freedom to patriots, end conspiracies," the protesters shouted as police blocked them from marching to parliament in the capital Ankara.
Full StoryKenya's attorney general on Thursday rejected accusations that Nairobi had failed to cooperate with International Criminal Court prosecutors' crimes against humanity case against President Uhuru Kenyatta.
"The impression has been created in this court and elsewhere that Kenya has not at any time extended cooperation," Attorney General Githu Muigai told a hearing on the troubled case at The Hague-based ICC.
Full StoryA Japanese mayor whose city is set to be the site of a relocated U.S. military base pleaded Thursday for the plan to be dropped, as Tokyo and Washington push ahead with the move.
Susumu Inamine, who has just been re-elected on a fiercely anti-base platform as the mayor of Nago, Okinawa, said the burden of hosting the 47,000 United States personnel based in Japan should be spread across the country.
Full StoryAt least six people were killed Thursday in a suicide car bomb attack targeting a United Nations convoy close to Mogadishu's heavily-fortified international airport, officials said.
Somalia's al-Qaida-linked Shebab rebels, who are fighting to overthrow the country's internationally-backed government, told Agence France Presse that one of their suicide bombers carried out the attack.
Full StoryIndia's parliament erupted in chaos on Thursday over a bill to create a new state, as angry MPs came to blows and pulled out a microphone and one pepper-sprayed the chamber.
Holding banners and shouting slogans, lawmakers disrupted the lower house of parliament as the Congress-led government introduced the contentious bill to carve a new state out of the existing Andhra Pradesh.
Full StoryItalian leftist leader Matteo Renzi on Thursday called for a new government in his first direct challenge to Prime Minister Enrico Letta, who has so far refused to resign in an ongoing bitter feud between the two.
Renzi said there was "necessity and urgency of opening a new phase with a new executive" at the start of a key meeting of the leadership of his Democratic Party that is expected to decide whether to back Letta or Renzi.
Full StoryTens of thousands of Britons endured a second day without power Thursday as yet another Atlantic storm barreled towards a country struggling to deal with the wettest winter for 250 years.
The fresh band of rain, snow and strong winds was due to strike flood-hit southern Britain on Friday, two days after hurricane-force gales tore through the country leaving one person dead.
Full StoryA major storm blowing in heavy snow and ice gripped large swaths of the winter-weary United States early Thursday, leaving a dozen people dead and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes.
Thousands of travelers were stranded as flights, including at major air hubs in Atlanta and New York, were canceled, and nearly 800,000 homes and businesses lost power, mainly in Georgia and North and South Carolina.
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