Libyans dig for water in latest test for capital’s residents
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Across Libya’s capital residents have started drilling through pavements to access wells in a desperate search for water after the taps ran dry in a new low for living conditions.
Spain sacks Catalan government after independence declaration
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – The Madrid government sacked Catalonia’s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis since the return of democracy four …
Myanmar detains reporters on assignment for Turkish state TV
NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar police detained two journalists working for Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT and their interpreter and driver on Friday for flying a drone near the parliament compound, amid tension between the two countries over the …
Spain’s Rajoy sacks Catalan government, calls snap election
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain on Friday sacked Catalonia’s regional government, dissolved the Catalan parliament and called a snap election in the region for Dec. 21, in a bid to draw a line under Spain’s worst political crisis in 40 years.
U.S. seeks meeting soon to revive Asia-Pacific ‘Quad’ security forum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States wants a meeting soon aimed at reviving a four-way dialogue between itself, Japan, India and Australia to deepen security cooperation and coordinate alternatives for regional infrastructure financing to that offe…
German far-right party wants journalists’ private data
BERLIN (Reuters) – The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) wants access to data about the ethnic backgrounds and political views of journalists who want to cover the party’s national congress in December after it became the third largest party in p…
Iraq orders truce with Kurds to allow peaceful deployment at border crossings
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered a 24-hour suspension to military operations against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, to allow for the peaceful deployment of Iraqi troops at the border crossings with the Kurdistan region…
‘Death to blasphemers’ increasing as political rallying cry in Pakistan
SWABI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Three police officers stand daily guard at the tomb of Pakistani student Mashal Khan to prevent religious hardliners from fulfilling threats to blow up the grave of the 23-year-old beaten to death over rumors he blasphemed a…
Mindful of history, Germans mobilize against rise of far-right AfD
BERLIN (Reuters) – German civil rights groups are mobilizing against the newly elected far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and other more hardline groups, vowing to avert the even stronger rightward lurch seen in neighboring countries.
Islamic State shores up last stronghold on Syria-Iraq border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State is building up its defenses in a pocket of territory on the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, the U.S.-led coalition said on Friday, in an anticipation of assaults by Syrian and Iraqi forces aiming to snuff out the jihadists’ last…
