Swiss woman files rape complaint against Islamic scholar
GENEVA (Reuters) – A Swiss woman has filed a criminal complaint in Geneva for rape against the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan – already being held in custody in France on similar allegations – her lawyer said on Friday.
Talks with Boko Haram on release of Chibok girls suffer setback: Nigerian president
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that negotiations with Islamist militants holding girls kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014 had been set back by disagreements among their abductors.
Thousands of Palestinians protest at Gaza-Israel border, one dead
GAZA BORDER (Reuters) – A Palestinian was killed and more than 200 others wounded during clashes with Israeli troops as thousands gathered in protest along the Gaza-Israel border on Friday, Gaza officials said.
Mexico president says door open to U.S. rejoining TPP
LIMA (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday that the door was open to the United States rejoining the Trans Pacific Partnership, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his economic advisors to look at rejoining the sweeping …
Israel says Iranian drone it shot down in February was carrying explosives
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Friday an Iranian drone it shot down over Israeli territory in February was armed with explosives and was meant to carry out an attack.
Threat of Western strikes hangs over Syria, U.S., France assail Assad at U.N.
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and its ally France assailed Syria’s Bashar al-Assad at the United Nations on Friday for using chemical weapons as the prospect of U.S.-led military action that could lead to confrontation with Russia…
Brazil retail magnate Rocha defies left in presidential race
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Angry leftist protests outside his businesses will not deter billionaire Flavio Rocha from running in Brazil’s presidential election this year, advocating a crackdown on crime, a much smaller state and conservative family values.
UK police arrest man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts
(Reuters) – British police said on Friday that they arrested a man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts in London.
Threat of U.S.-Russia clash hangs over Syria, French leader speaks to Putin
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The prospect of Western military action in Syria that could lead to confrontation with Russia hung over the Middle East on Friday but there was no clear sign a U.S.-led attack was imminent.
Nobel Prize-awarding Swedish Academy weighs reforms after controversy
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A row has erupted within the secretive committee that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature over sexual harassment allegations and alleged leaks of prize winners’ names, prompting a rare intervention in public life by Sweden’s king.
