Turkey’s Erdogan tells Iran’s Rouhani that U.S. decision on nuclear deal wrong: Turkish source
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani that he found the U.S. decision to withdraw from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran to be wrong, a source in Erdogan’s office said.
Exclusive: Iraq used Baghdadi aide’s phone to capture Islamic State commanders
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi agents are holding a top aide to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and used an app on his mobile phone to lure four commanders from the group into a trap, a security advisor to the Iraqi government said on Thursday.
Vietnam arrests oil refinery executives amid corruption crackdown
HANOI (Reuters) – Police in Vietnam arrested the chairman and the chief accountant of Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd. on suspicion of embezzlement on Thursday as the communist-led government widens a crackdown on corruption.
Kenyan rose-farm dam bursts, ‘sea of water’ kills 32
SOLAI, Kenya (Reuters) – A dam burst on a commercial flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a “sea of water” that careened down a hillside and smashed into two villages, killing at least 32 people.
Explosion in Somalia town near Mogadishu kills seven soldiers: official
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An bomb targeting soldiers in southern Somalia killed seven on Thursday, a government official said, the second such incident in two days.
Trump’s Iran decision puts Iraq leaders to the test
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal has cast a shadow over an already fraught election in Iraq, where Tehran and Washington have vied for influence since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam H…
Israel says it attacked targets in Syria after Iranian rocket fire
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time.
Macron, receiving Charlemagne prize, calls for ambitious European budget
AACHEN, Germany (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday reiterated his call for the euro zone to have its own budget, saying Europe needed more ambitious financing to help defend its interests and bring about economic and fiscal conver…
Turkey acts against French studies at universities amid Koran row
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey on Thursday suspended the opening of any new French studies departments at its universities, an education official said, amid a growing row with France over a call there for some passages to be removed from the Koran.
Italy’s League and 5-Star make ‘significant steps’ towards government deal
ROME (Reuters) – The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League have made “significant steps” towards forming a government, the two parties said on Thursday as Italy looked to end nine weeks of political deadlock.
