Islamic State still a threat as Mosul residents return to city in ruins
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Abu Ghazi stood smoking a cigarette outside what used to be his home in Mosul’s Old City, where only the sound of the footsteps of a few soldiers on patrol and twisted pieces of metal and fabric flapping in the wind disturb the …
U.S. sanctions eight more Venezuelan officials, including Chavez brother
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on eight more Venezuelan officials, including the brother of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, to punish them for helping President Nicolas Maduro to create a new legislati…
France’s parliament approves bill to clean up politics
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s National Assembly on Wednesday adopted a bill meant to help clean up national politics after hard-fought debates over a clause scrapping lawmakers’ constituency funds, which critics say encourage clientelism.
Italy-Malta migrant standoff ends as humanitarian boat docks in Sicily
ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Wednesday gave permission to a Spanish humanitarian organization to dock and disembark migrants in Sicily after three days of arguments with Malta over who should take in the rescued men.
Venezuela inflation quickens to 248.6 percent in year to July: opposition
CARACAS (Reuters) – Inflation in Venezuela’s crisis-hit economy quickened to 248.6 percent in the first seven months of the year, the opposition-led congress said on Wednesday in the absence of official data.
Gunmen kill two Afghan women contractors at air base near Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – Two Afghan women working for a security firm searching people entering Bagram air base near the Afghan capital Kabul were killed on Wednesday and two others wounded by unknown gunmen, officials said.
Gang convicted of sex offences against vulnerable girls in England
LONDON (Reuters) – A gang of 18 people has been found guilty of trafficking and sexually abusing vulnerable teenage girls and young women for several years in northern England, prosecutors said on Wednesday, in the latest shocking case of its kind in B…
German police find migrants hiding on train near Austrian border
RAUBLING, Germany (Reuters) – German police found a group of 12 shivering migrants hiding on a freight train near the Austrian border on Wednesday and an officer said the number caught trying to enter Germany illegally was on the rise in the region.
Investigation of German helicopter in Mali could take months: ministry
BERLIN (Reuters) – German investigators may need months to determine what caused an Airbus military helicopter to crash during a peacekeeping mission in Mali, killing both crew members, defense ministry spokesman Jens Flosdorff said on Wednesday.
Long wait for captive Yazidis’ return spent rebuilding shrine in Iraq’s Bashiqa
BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Yazidi men and boys in the town of Bashiqa north east of Mosul are rebuilding a shrine destroyed by Islamic State as they wait for the return of women from their community taken captive years ago by the jihadists.
