Greek police arrest ninth suspect over killing of U.S tourist
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police arrested a 33-year old Serb on Tuesday over the murder of a young American tourist on the Greek island of Zakynthos last week, bringing the number of people detained in the case to nine.
OSCE member states, including Russia, reach deal to fill vacant posts
VIENNA (Reuters) – Members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which monitors the conflict in eastern Ukraine, overcame months of deadlock on Tuesday on filling top posts, its chairman said, praising Russia’s “constructiv…
East Congo militia violence forces 80,000 to flee home, U.N. says
KINSHASA (Reuters) – About 80,000 people have fled fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and a new rebel coalition, the United Nations said on Tuesday, joining the millions already uprooted in Africa’s worst displacement crisis.
At Srebrenica, Iraq’s Yazidis demand genocide recognition
SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Four Yazidis from Iraq joined thousands of Bosnian Muslims at a commemoration on Tuesday of the 8,000 men and boys killed in 1995 at Srebrenica and called for atrocities committed against their sect by Islamic State to be…
U.S. Navy temporarily relieves commander of ship struck in Japanese waters.
TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy on Tuesday said on Tuesday it has temporarily relieved, for medical reasons, the commander of a warship involved in a crash with a container vessel in Japanese waters that killed seven American sailors.
Saudi Arabia to introduce physical education for schoolgirls
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi public schools will begin offering physical education for girls in the coming academic year, the kingdom’s education ministry announced on Tuesday, a long-awaited step toward social reform in the Islamic kingdom.
Gaza ‘unliveable’ ten years after Hamas seized power: U.N.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A decade after the Islamist group Hamas seized Gaza, the Palestinian enclave is effectively unliveable for its 2 million people, with declining incomes, healthcare, education, electricity and fresh water, the United Nations said.
Syrian Observatory says it has ‘confirmed information’ that Islamic State chief is dead
CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.
Rebels strike Syrian warplane east of Damascus
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Western-backed rebel group in Syria and a monitor of the conflict there said rebels fired anti-aircraft machine guns at a Syrian military jet on Tuesday, damaging the plane, about 80 km (50 miles) east of Damascus.
German military resumes tanker flights after move from Turkish base
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German air force on Tuesday resumed refueling operations from an air base in Jordan in support of U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State after moving its Airbus MRTT tanker out of Turkey’s Incirlik air base, a military spokes…
