100,000 civilians behind Islamic State lines in Iraqi city of Mosul
GENEVA (Reuters) – About 100,000 civilians remain trapped behind Islamic State lines in Mosul with a U.S.-backed government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city entering its ninth month, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
Lord’s Resistance Army steps up Congo attacks as U.S.-backed force pulls out: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The outlawed Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has stepped up attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo close to the South Sudanese border as a U.S.-supported regional task force pulls out, the U.N. humanitarian office said in a report on F…
Britain says no EU exit deal unless future relationship taken into account
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday that no deal could be struck on exiting the European Union unless the future relationship with the bloc was taken into account.
Bomb planted on road kills 4 in northeast Kenya: official
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four people were killed and 11 injured when their landcruiser detonated a bomb planted on a road in northeast Kenya on Friday, a senior government official said, in the latest of a series of such attacks.
Six found guilty of involvement in 1993 blasts in India’s financial hub
MUMBAI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Friday found six men guilty of involvement in a series of blasts in the city of Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people and wounded 800, the latest in scores of convictions related to India’s most deadly bombings.
Transport strike brings ‘Black Friday’ to Italian cities
ROME (Reuters) – Nationwide strikes left commuters and tourists stranded across Italy on Friday, as transport unions called for better job conditions for workers and protested against privatization.
House at heart of Singapore’s Lee family feud has no foundations, cracks in walls
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – In property-obsessed Singapore, the future and value of one house has gripped the nation due to an extraordinary feud between the children of the island state’s founding father.
U.S. Senate’s Iran sanctions are breach of nuclear deal: senior Iranian official
ANKARA (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate’s decision to impose new sanctions on Iran is an “unquestionable” violation of a nuclear deal reached in 2015 between Tehran and six major powers including the United States, Iranian media quoted a senior Iranian offi…
Macron’s alliance on track for huge parliamentary majority: Odoxa poll
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron remained on course for a landslide majority in France’s parliamentary election on Sunday and turnout will be even lower than in the first round, an Odoxa opinion poll showed on Friday.
Armed police fire stun gun at knife-wielding man near British parliament
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said officers guarding one of the gates to the Westminster parliament in central London had fired a stun gun at a man who reached for a knife when they approached him on Friday but it was not initially being considered…
