Syrians risk all in flight from Raqqa
AIN ISSA, Syria/AMMAN (Reuters) – People from Raqqa are fleeing their city under cover of night as U.S.-backed forces close in on the Islamic State stronghold, running a gauntlet of minefields and hostile fighters instead of risking death in a major ba…
Thousands of Greek pensioners protest against cuts as more austerity looms
ATHENS (Reuters) – Thousands of elderly Greeks protested peacefully on Tuesday against more pension cuts, as cash-strapped Greece remained locked in talks with lenders on further austerity and unpopular labor reforms.
British police charge 13 people over attack on asylum seeker in London
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said they had now charged 13 people on Tuesday over a brutal attack on a teenage asylum seeker in south London which detectives said he was lucky to survive.
May to raise ‘hard issues’ with Saudi Arabia, stand up for UK interests
RIYADH (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would raise “hard issues” with Saudi Arabia’s leaders on a visit to the country, as critics urged her to pressure Riyadh over its air war in Yemen and human rights record.
Number of people displaced from Mosul exceeds 300,000, U.N. says
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge Islamic State from the northern Iraqi city in October, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Macron favorite, voter certainty rises in French election: Le Monde poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen are tied on 25 percent of the first-round election vote, although Macron would go on to beat Le Pen in the second round, a Le Monde/Cevipof opini…
U.S. navy aid unit told to leave Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy aid unit has been told to leave Cambodia, the U.S. embassy said, in a new sign of the Southeast Asian country loosening links with Washington as it strengthens ties with Beijing.
Malaysia rights panel disturbed over more than 600 deaths in prisons and detention centers
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s national human rights panel on Tuesday said it was disturbed by more than 600 deaths at immigration detention centers and prisons over the last two years, and called for immediate reform.
China, ASEAN make progress on framework deal on disputed sea, Philippines says
MANILA (Reuters) – China and Southeast Asian countries have made progress in talks on a code of conduct for the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine acting foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Russian metro bomb suspect a Muslim born in central Asia: investigators
OSH, Kyrgyzstan/ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian suicide bomber originally from mainly Muslim Kyrgyzstan detonated the explosives in a St Petersburg train carriage that killed 14 people and wounded 50, authorities said on Tuesday.
