Iraqi forces chip away at last Islamic State-held districts in Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Fly-blown corpses of Islamic State militants (IS) littered the streets of a district in Mosul on Tuesday as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces chipped away at the last remaining handful of districts under the jihadists’ control.
Palestinian hunger strike heightens tension with Israel
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – A hunger strike by more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners over their treatment in Israeli jails has turned into a heated dispute over whether the leader of the protest secretly broke the fast, and whether Israel tempted him to…
Chinese military conducts live-fire drills, weapons tests
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military has conducted live-fire drills and weapons tests in the northeastern Bohai Sea close to the Korean peninsula, the country’s defense ministry said on Tuesday.
UK Labour leader Corbyn: I won’t quit if I lose election
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Jeremy Corbyn vowed to carry on leading Britain’s opposition Labour Party if he loses a national election on June 8, defying polls showing he is on course for defeat and concerns from within his party that his leadership…
New poll setback for German Social Democrats before state vote
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), stung by defeat in a state election on Sunday, fell to their lowest level in more than three months in a poll on Tuesday, underlining the scale of the task they face to oust Angela Merkel in a Septem…
Turks in Germany not allowed to vote on death penalty: Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – Turks living in Germany will not be allowed to vote in any referendum on reinstating the death penalty in Turkey, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in remarks broadcast on Tuesday.
Germany detains second soldier suspected of planning ‘extremist’ attack
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police on Tuesday detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in a plan by an army officer and a student to carry out an attack, possibly on politicians who do not oppose immigration, the federal public prosecutor said….
Qatar says Syria ‘de-escalation’ plan not an alternative to political transition
DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar’s foreign minister on Tuesday welcomed a Russian-brokered agreement for “de-escalation” zones in Syria but said the plan was no substitute for a political transition that would see President Bashar al-Assad step down.
If London were Aleppo – Buckingham Palace destroyed, 4.3 million dead or displaced
BERLIN (Reuters) – The bullet-riddled, bombed-out buildings of Aleppo may bear little resemblance to London’s gleaming skyscrapers but the two cities once had much in common, something German artist Hans Hack has seized on to bring home the reality of …
Racist soldier’s militant double life shocks Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) – In January 2014, the commander of a French military academy rejected the master’s thesis of an elite German army officer under his charge for its extremist argument that human rights could lead to the genocide of Western races.
