Egypt’s Sisi, Israel’s Netanyahu meet for first time in public
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met for the first time in public in what Egypt said was part of an effort to revive the Middle East peace process.
Israel says shoots down drone over Golan Heights frontier with Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel shot down a pilotless aircraft that tried to enter its airspace at its Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Tuesday, the Israeli military said.
Rebels say U.S. evacuates base in southern Syrian desert
AMMAN (Reuters) – U.S. troops and allied Arab fighters have evacuated a garrison set up in June in the Syrian desert near the border with Iraq and relocated to their main Tanf base, rebel sources said on Tuesday.
Turkish tanks trained on northern Iraq in show of force ahead of vote
SIRNAK, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish troops dug in on the country’s southern border on Tuesday and turned their weapons toward Kurdish-run northern Iraq, where authorities plan an independence referendum in defiance of Ankara and Western powers.
5-Star’s young, popular Di Maio charts course to be Italy PM
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement looks poised to name Luigi Di Maio as its candidate for prime minister in elections early next year and, if opinion polls are to be believed, the earnest 31-year-old has a good chance of winni…
Well-preserved wreck of WWI German submarine found off Belgian coast
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The well-preserved wreck of a World War One German submarine, possibly still containing the bodies of 23 crew members, has been found off the Belgian coast, Belgian broadcaster VRT said on Tuesday.
Rescued migrants say lucky to dodge Libyan coastal clampdown
ABOARD AQUARIUS RESCUE SHIP (Reuters) – Migrants rescued in the Mediterranean last week said they had been lucky to dodge increased sea and police patrols along the Western coast of Libya that have dramatically reduced arrivals in Italy since July.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi condemns abuses in Rakhine but rights groups skeptical
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Tuesday human rights violations in Rakhine state and said violators would be brought to book, but she did not address U.N. accusations of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya…
South Africa’s court to hear state’s appeal against Pistorius in November
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) will hear the state’s appeal against the six-year murder sentence handed to Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius on Nov. 3, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Tues…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi condemns rights abuse, decries suffering in Rakhine
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Tuesday any human rights violations in troubled Rakhine State and said anyone responsible would face the law, and that she felt deeply for the suffering of everyone caught up in the con…
