Supreme Leader Khamenei says U.S. is Iran’s ‘number one enemy’: TV
ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States is Iran’s “number one enemy” and Tehran will never succumb to Washington’s pressure over a multinational nuclear deal, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Thursday.
Germany records surge in refugees as Merkel seeks new migrant policy
BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of people seeking refuge in Germany has more than doubled in the last two years to 1.6 million, with most fleeing Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday.
Moscow hopes Syrian opposition will attend Russia-backed congress: Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia hopes that all Syrian opposition groups will attend a Moscow-backed Syrian congress in southern Russia on Nov. 18 despite some objections, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Thursday, the Interfax news ag…
South Korea spy agency sees possibility of new North Korean missile test: Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may possibly carry out a new missile test, as brisk activity has been spotted at its research facilities, South Korea’s spy agency said on Thursday, the South’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
Kurds offer joint border deployment as Iraq threatens to resume military operations
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurdistan region said on Thursday it has offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into Turkey, with the participation of the U.S.-led coalition that was helping fight Islamic State.
Filipino lawyers’ group challenges Duterte’s war on drugs
MANILA (Reuters) – Filipino lawyers on Thursday announced a broad alliance to challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s 16-month war on drugs amid unprecedented scrutiny of the campaign in which more than 3,900 mostly urban, poor Filipinos have been killed…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi ‘urges people not to quarrel’ on visit to Rakhine
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Thursday urged people “not to quarrel” as she visited Rakhine State for the first time since a military crackdown that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the coun…
Moscow hopes Syrian opposition would attend Russia-backed congress: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia hopes that all Syrian opposition groups will attend “Syrian Congress on National Dialogue”, which it plans to host on Nov. 18 in Sochi, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday citing Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail B…
After air strike, Israeli minister warns against arms shipments to Hezbollah
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A senior Israeli minister on Thursday declined to comment on reports that Israeli aircraft had struck a target in Syria the night before but repeated a threat to hit arms shipments to Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.
Catalan secessionist leaders to appear in court, without Puigdemont
MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s secessionist leaders will appear before a court in Madrid on Thursday to answer charges of rebellion and sedition, though the region’s former president Carles Puigdemont said he would not turn up.
