South Africa’s Zuma appoints new energy minister in cabinet reshuffle
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma has appointed minister of state security David Mahlobo as energy minister in a cabinet reshuffle, the presidency said on Tuesday.
Taliban suicide attack on provincial Afghan police HQ kills at least 12
KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 60, officials and militants said.
‘Vanishing village’ looks to Japan’s LDP for survival
NANMOKU, Japan (Reuters) – Chikara Imai, 73, is quick to dismiss the new parties in Sunday’s national election in Japan, saying old ties with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party is what the country’s most elderly village needs for surv…
Detention of Catalan activists a judicial, not political, matter: Spain justice minister
MADRID (Reuters) – The detention of Catalan activists on Monday, the first imprisonment of senior secessionist figures since the region’s Oct. 1 banned referendum on independence, was a judicial, not a political, matter, Spain’s justice minister said o…
Iraqi forces take control of Bai Hasan, Avana oil fields after Kurdish pullout
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces took control on Tuesday of the Bai Hasan and Avana oil fields northwest of Kirkuk, after Kurdish Peshmerga fighters pulled out from the region, security sources said.
Philippine president declares Marawi liberated as battle goes on
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared the southern city of Marawi liberated from pro-Islamic State militants on Tuesday, although the military said 20-30 rebels were holding about 20 hostages and still fighting it out.
U.S. takes aim at Yemeni Islamic State for first time
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States said it launched its first attack on Islamic State’s deadly Yemen branch on Monday with a series of nighttime airstrikes that residents said targeted two villages and killed several people.
Italy’s Berlusconi says center-right agrees pact on next PM candidate
ROME (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday he and the leader of the Northern League had agreed a pact to choose the candidate to head an eventual center-right governing coalition, a newspaper reported.
London art auction raises $2.5 million for survivors of deadly Grenfell Tower blaze
LONDON (Reuters) – An auction of 31 artworks donated by some of Britain’s most successful contemporary artists has raised close to 2 million pounds for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire that killed about 80 people in June.
U.S.-backed militias say they take major Raqqa position from ISIS
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has taken the National Hospital in Raqqa, one of Islamic State’s last remaining bastions in its former Syrian capital, a militia spokesman said on Tuesday.
