Basque separatist group ETA to vote on full dissolution by summer
MADRID (Reuters) – Leaders of Basque separatist militant group ETA are asking its members to vote on whether it should dismantle itself completely by the summer, it said in a statement in newspaper Gara.
Germany’s far-right AfD set to embrace anti-Islam PEGIDA
BERLIN (Reuters) – A leader of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is pushing to overturn the party’s ban on members joining rallies by the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement – another sign of the rightward shift of Germany’s budding main opposition …
Israeli Bezeq’s owner to remain in custody until Monday
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The controlling shareholder of Bezeq Israel Telecom, Israel’s largest telecoms group, has been ordered to remain in police custody until Monday as part of an investigation into the firm.
EU rejects three-pronged British approach to new ties after Brexit
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union would not agree to a post-Brexit deal in which Britain would stick to the bloc’s rules in some areas, diverge moderately in others and go for distinctively different solutions for the rest, sources in Brussels sa…
Kremlin critic Navalny held, then released ahead of Russian election
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was briefly detained on Thursday and accused of organizing illegal protests, weeks before a presidential election in which he has been barred from running.
Israeli military investigating Palestinian’s death in West Bank confrontation
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian man died after a confrontation with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that the Palestinian Authority condemned as a “cold-blooded execution”.
Death toll from Mozambique summer rains reaches 50
MAPUTO (Reuters) – The southern hemisphere summer rainy season has killed 50 people in Mozambique since October, the country’s National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) said in its latest update on Thursday.
Egypt sentences 21 to death for planning attacks
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 21 suspected extremists to death, including 16 in absentia, on charges of bomb making and planning attacks on public and private infrastructure, judicial sources said.
Belgian police set up security cordon after murder report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Police closed down a street in southern Brussels in a major security operation involving specialist armed units on Thursday after a report of a possible murder.
Man lobs grenade at U.S. embassy in Montenegro, then blows himself up
PODGORICA (Reuters) – An unidentified man threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the U.S. embassy building in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, around midnight before blowing himself up, the government said on Thursday.
