Qatar launches wide-ranging WTO complaint against trade boycott
GENEVA (Reuters) – Qatar filed a wide-ranging legal complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday to challenge a trade boycott by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates, the director of Qatar’s WTO office Ali Alwaleed al-Thani told Reuter…
British Royal Marine jailed for making bombs for Irish republicans
LONDON (Reuters) – A British Royal Marine was jailed for 18 years on Monday after admitting that he worked as a bomb maker for dissident Irish Republican groups that violently oppose Northern Ireland’s peace process.
WhatsApp enforcer: Brother of ousted Pakistani PM to bring new style
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Politics is a family business in Pakistan and ousted leader Nawaz Sharif has looked no further than his brother Shahbaz for a successor, but the prime minister-in-waiting is no carbon copy and is likely to usher i…
Yemen government will not let Houthis keep Hodeidah: minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Saudi-backed Yemeni government will not allow its Houthi foes to keep the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, the information minister said, underlining its intention to remove the vital aid delivery point from the control of the Iran-align…
Iraqi general sees easy victory over exhausted IS fighters in Tal Afar
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A senior Iraqi general predicted a relatively easy victory for his forces in the upcoming battle for the Islamic State haven of Tal Afar as up 2,000 fighters and their families there are “worn out and demoralised”.
German prosecutors say co-defendants helped neo-Nazi trial suspect
MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s federal prosecutor said on Monday that two men suspected of being accomplices to Beate Zschaepe, the main surviving suspect in a neo-Nazi trial for 10 murders, had procured the gun used in a spate of racial killings.
Farmers, jobless vie for votes as small-scale politics spreads in Kenya
BARUT, Kenya (Reuters) – Peter Maritim rolled along Barut’s main street in his home-made wheelchair, shouting out to voters – just one of 13 candidates campaigning for the tiny Kenyan town’s single seat in the county assembly.
Attempt to prosecute Blair over Iraq fails in London High Court
LONDON (Reuters) – A British court on Monday rejected an attempt by a former Iraqi general to bring a private prosecution against former Prime Minister Tony Blair over the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Missing Kenya election official found dead before vote: colleague
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A senior Kenyan election official was found dead on Monday three days after going missing, a colleague said, stirring fears of turmoil before next week’s national vote.
Philippine security forces find seven headless bodies on southern island
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine security forces found seven headless bodies on Monday believed to be the victims of kidnappings in two towns on the southern island of Basilan, a stronghold of the pro-Islamic State Abu Sayyaf group, police said.
