Hiker, rescuer plunge to death in Austria as helicopter line gives way
ZURICH (Reuters) – A stranded Austrian mountain hiker and her would-be rescuer fell to their deaths when a line hoisting them into a police helicopter gave way, sending them and the woman’s husband plunging into a gorge below.
Turkey plans to strip ‘fugitives’ of citizenship, including Gulen: ministry
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s interior ministry said on Monday it would strip citizenship from 130 people suspected of militant links, including the U.S.-based cleric it says orchestrated last July’s failed coup, unless they return to Turkey within three…
U.S. poised to warn U.N. rights forum of possible withdrawal
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States is expected to signal on Tuesday that it might withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council unless reforms are ushered in including the removal of what it sees as an “anti-Israel bias”, diplomats and activi…
Head of Moscow’s Ukrainian library convicted of incitement against Russians
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s only state-run Ukrainian library was convicted on Monday of inciting hatred against Russians in a case that she compared to a Stalin-era political show trial.
Indian investigators launch fraud probe into leading news channel
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian federal investigators launched a fraud probe on Monday into the founders of news channel NDTV, in a step the channel denounced as an attempt to muzzle free speech in the world’s largest democracy.
U.S. army Pacific chief in Bangkok amid regional security concerns
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Army Pacific met his Thai counterpart in Bangkok on Monday, a rare top-level meeting between the old allies’ militaries since the United States criticized a Thai military coup in 2014.
Macron factor set to leap from presidency to parliament
PARIS (Reuters) – Bastions are crumbling and loyalties shifting ahead of France’s parliamentary elections. Emmanuel Macron, fresh from becoming the youngest French leader since Napoleon, now looks set to redraw the political map with a party he only fo…
Militants in Philippines city dug in for protracted battle
MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town stocked weapons and food in mosques, tunnels and basements to prepare for a long siege, officials said on Monday as the battle for control of Marawi City ca…
Weary Afghan army fights on as U.S. weighs troop increase
CHAPARHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – From his sandbagged command post outside the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, Brigadier General Mohammad Nasim Sangin says he needs more troops and equipment to beat the Taliban and hold on to ground his soldiers tak…
U.N. breaks Cyprus impasse, talks to resume in Geneva this month
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Peace talks on divided Cyprus are to resume in Geneva this month, the United Nations said on Monday, ending a stalemate on procedure which had threatened to derail two years of negotiations.
