Iraq’s army encircles Islamic State in Mosul’s Old City: military
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq’s army said it had encircled Islamic State’s stronghold in the Old City of Mosul on Tuesday after taking over an area to the north of the densely populated historic district.
At least six Afghan guards killed on way to work at U.S. base
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan opened fire on a vehicle taking Afghan guards to work at a U.S. military base killing six of them, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
Israel starts work on new settlement, even as U.S. steps up peace efforts
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel broke ground on Tuesday on its first new settlement in the occupied West Bank for two decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, announcing the symbolic move on the eve of a peace mission by White House senior advise…
Soros says Britain nearing tipping point, may reverse Brexit
LONDON (Reuters) – George Soros, the billionaire who earned fame by betting against the pound in 1992, said Britain was approaching a tipping point that would see the economy slow to such an extent that Brexit might even be reversed.
Champs Elysees attacker was Islamic State loyalist, on French watchlist
PARIS (Reuters) – A man who rammed a car into a police van in Paris stored a cache of weapons at his home and held a gun permit despite being on a secret service list of people linked to radical Islam, police sources and French officials said on Tuesda…
Merkel urges EU to stick together after Brexit talks launched
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged the European Union’s remaining 27 members to stick together during talks on Britain’s exit from the bloc, which began on Monday.
Splintering of South Sudan war makes peace more elusive: United Nations
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s civil war has mutated from a two-way fight between the president and his ousted former deputy to a fragmented conflict, making it harder to put it back together and peace more elusive, the top U.N. peacekeeper in the country said.
Russia has no confirmation of IS leader’s death: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it could not confirm that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in an air strike in Syria last month, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying.
‘He said he was Christian, they shot him,’ says son who saw father die
DAYR JARNOUS, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian schoolboy Mina Habib rarely leaves his house these days. The 10-year-old is still recovering from seeing Islamist gunmen kill his father for being Christian.
Suspect admits to blasts in Thailand, says acted against ‘coup government’
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A 61-year-old man arrested in connection with a bomb blast at a military-run hospital in Bangkok claimed responsibility for the attack on Tuesday saying he objected to unelected military rulers.
