Rights groups ask China to stop detaining its critics
GENEVA (Reuters) – Human rights activists called on China on Wednesday to stop detaining lawyers and critics, voicing concern for their health and fate in custody after the death of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo attracted international attention in …
Rape cases fuel anti-migrant angst in Italy ahead of election
ROME (Reuters) – Rape allegations leveled against foreigners are fuelling anti-immigrant sentiment in Italy ahead of elections due early next year, when migration is likely to top the political agenda.
Turkey will take its own security measures after Russia defense deal: Erdogan
ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday dismissed NATO allies’ concern over Turkey’s deal to buy a missile defense system from Russia and said Ankara would continue to take the security measures it thought right.
Girl strapped with bomb kills five in Cameroon mosque
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – A girl with a bomb strapped to her walked into a mosque in northern Cameroon where it exploded, killing five worshippers in an attack bearing the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, authorities said.
Buildings evacuated in Moscow after bomb threats: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian authorities evacuated people from dozens of buildings in Moscow on Wednesday after a flurry of anonymous phone calls asserting the locations had been mined, RIA news agency reported.
Apart for a year, Syrian family shares kisses through fence
KOKKINOTRIMITHIA, Cyprus (Reuters) – After more than a year of separation Syrian refugee Ammar Hammasho was finally, albeit briefly, reunited with his wife and four children through a chain link fence topped with barbed wire in Cyprus.
U.S. says air strikes in Somalia kill six al Shabaab fighters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had carried out air strikes in Somalia against an al Qaeda-allied Islamist group and killed six militants.
Russia’s Zapad war games unnerve the West
TALLINN/VILNIUS (Reuters) – From planes, radars and ships in the Baltics, NATO officials say they are watching Russia’s biggest war games since 2013 with “calm and confidence”, but many are unnerved about what they see as Moscow testing its ability to …
Juncker: grab Brexit chance to forge a tighter EU
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker urged EU governments on Wednesday to use economic recovery and Brexit as springboards toward a closer union, built on an expanded euro zone and a pivotal role in world trade.
Suicide bomb near cricket stadium in Afghan capital kills at least three
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near the main cricket stadium in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least three people as a tournament was under way, officials said.
