U.S. to extend Iran sanctions relief under nuclear deal: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday will announce that it will extend wide sanctions relief for Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal, sources familiar with the matter said, but no decision on whether to preserve the deal itself has yet bee…
Iraq MPs votes to oust Kirkuk governor days before referendum
BAGHDAD/KIRKUK (Reuters) – Iraq’s parliament on Thursday voted to remove the governor of Kirkuk, a staunch supporter of Kurdish independence, just days before a referendum on whether to split from Baghdad.
Turkey feels betrayed by EU over accession but still wants to join the club
LONDON (Reuters) – Turkey feels betrayed by European Union leaders who have said accession talks should be scrapped but it still hopes to eventually join the bloc, Turkish EU Minister Omer Celik said on Thursday.
Kremlin accuses West of ‘whipping up hysteria’ over Russian war games
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia accused the West on Thursday of “whipping up hysteria” over large-scale military exercises underway in eastern Europe and denied charges that they were being conducted with a lack of transparency.
At least 50 killed in suicide attacks in southern Iraq: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The death toll from suicide attacks in a southern Iraqi city on Thursday had risen to 50 people, with more than 80 wounded, a health official and police sources said.
Ukraine gives cautious welcome to Putin’s peacekeepers offer
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ukraine on Thursday welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declared openness to deployment of United Nations peacekeepers in separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, but said Russian troops must not join such an operation…
Russia says close to Syria deal with Turkey, Iran
ASTANA (Reuters) – Russia, Turkey and Iran are close to finalizing an agreement on creating four de-escalation zones in Syria, a senior Russian negotiator said on Thursday.
London fire inquiry starts amid anger, despair of survivors
LONDON (Reuters) – A public inquiry into a fire that killed at least 80 people at London’s Grenfell Tower will get to the truth about the tragedy, its chairman pledged on Thursday, but critics said survivors of the blaze were still being failed.
A dead dictator, his rusting boat and a fight for history
RIJEKA, Croatia (Reuters) – In a Croatian port sits a boat built to carry bananas from Africa to Italy, that laid mines for Nazi Germany and was sunk by Allied planes before it was salvaged as the personal yacht of a globe-trotting communist leader.
U.N. seeks ‘massive’ help for Rohingya fleeing Myanmar ‘ethnic cleansing’
DHAKA/YANGON (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed on Thursday for massive help for nearly 400,000 Muslims from Myanmar who have fled to Bangladesh, with concern growing that the number could keep rising, unless Myanmar ends what critics denounce as …
