France pledges support to stabilize post-Islamic State Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – France will help reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Iraq as it emerges from a war against Islamic State, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday after talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad.
U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashes off Yemen, one service member missing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday during a training mission and a search was under way for one U.S. service member, the U.S. military said.
More than a thousand turn Philippine funeral to protest against war on drugs
MANILA (Reuters) – More than a thousand people attended a funeral procession on Saturday for a Philippine teenager slain by police last week, turning the march into one of the biggest protests yet against President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs…
Thailand’s ex-PM Yingluck flees to Dubai: senior party members
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said on Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in prison.
Canada says not assuming Cuba was behind acoustic incidents
OTTAWA/HAVANA (Reuters) – Canada is not automatically assuming that Cuba was behind an alleged “acoustic attack” against U.S. and Canadian personnel in Havana and has no plans to expel Cuban diplomats, an official said on Friday.
Prosecutors probe Guatemala president over campaign financing
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general and a U.N-backed anti-graft body are seeking to investigate President Jimmy Morales in a probe into suspected illicit campaign financing, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala…
North Korea tests short-range missiles as South Korea, U.S. conduct drills
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast early on Saturday, South Korea and the U.S. military said, as the two allies conducted annual joint military drills that the North denounces as …
U.N. official urges Mexico and U.S. to boost refugee protection
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The United States and other wealthy nations should do more to resettle migrants and refugees forced to flee their homelands, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Friday.
Germany’s Gabriel warns of ‘Cold War 2.0’ threat from rearmament
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany stands on the front line of a new Cold War, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, and Chancellor Angela Merkel was making a grave error by following U.S. President Donald Trump down the rearmament path.
Man with sword injures police outside UK Queen’s palace
(Reuters) – A man who assaulted police officers with a four-foot sword outside Queen Elizabeth’s Buckingham Palace residence shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) was being questioned by counter-terrorism police on Saturday.
