Fighting kills more than 3,000 in Congo’s Kasai region: Catholic church
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese security forces and a militia fighting them have killed at least 3,383 people in the central Kasai region since October, the Catholic church said on Tuesday, in the most detailed report to date on the violence.
Bosnian students keep up their protest against segregated schools
TRAVNIK, Bosnia (Reuters) – High school students and activists pressed their protest against ethnic segregation at schools in central Bosnia on Tuesday, after scoring an unprecedented victory against a government decision to further divide them along e…
Portuguese PM asks emergency services for answers after 64 die in forest fire
AVELAR, Portugal (Reuters) – Firefighters struggled on Tuesday to gain complete control over Portugal’s deadliest forest fire on record which killed 64 people at the weekend, as Prime Minister Antonio Costa questioned the effectiveness of an emergency …
Trump meets Ukraine’s president, U.S. adds to Russia sanctions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump met with Ukraine’s president on Tuesday and expressed support for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine but said nothing about Russia’s role, while the U.S. government added to sanctions …
Turkish opposition leader accuses ‘dictator’ Erdogan of judicial interference
CAMLIDERE, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition leader accused President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday of meddling in the judiciary and called him a “dictator”, as he extended his cross-country protest march against the jailing of a parliamentary al…
U.S. shoots down drone close to Iraqi-Syrian border: statement
AMMAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it had shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria’s southeast on Tuesday, in the latest sign of increasingly frequent confrontation with D…
WHO says child from Raqqa among 15 new polio cases in Syria
GENEVA (Reuters) – Fifteen new cases of polio have been confirmed in Syria, including a child who may have caught the disease in Raqqa, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
Two ministers quit French government as reshuffle looms
PARIS (Reuters) – French armed forces minister Sylvie Goulard unexpectedly quit her job on Tuesday, saying she did not want to stay on because of an investigation overshadowing her Modem party’s affairs in the European parliament.
In the kitchen, “we’re all human”: Refugee cooks up taste of Syria in Athens
ATHENS (Reuters) – Barshank Haj Younes may not have much to celebrate, but the young Syrian is cooking up a feast.
Moon says hopes for North Korea talks by year’s end: CBS interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he hopes to draw North Korea to the negotiating table over its nuclear program by the end of the year and pushed off any talk about a potential preemptive strike, according to a U.S. media …
