Senegal army ready to enter Gambia if president refuses to quit
BANJUL (Reuters) – Senegal’s army spokesman said on Wednesday that its forces are at the Gambian border and will enter at midnight if the veteran president, Yahya Jammeh, refuses to relinquish power.
Obama suggests U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem could be ‘explosive’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama suggested on Wednesday that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem could have “explosive” results and said he was worried that the prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were …
Brazil police separate gangs in prison where 26 killed
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Heavily armed police on Wednesday entered the prison where 26 inmates were butchered in recent days and separated members of rival drug gangs waging a turf war that set off a wave of riots in Brazil’s overcrowded penitentiary syst…
Al Qaeda says Mali attack punishment for cooperation with France
GAO, Mali (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North African affiliate said a suicide bomb attack on a military camp in northern Mali that killed up to 60 people and wounded more than 100 others on Wednesday was punishment for groups there cooperating with France.
Outgoing U.S. envoy says U.N. needs to ‘push’ Iran on arms embargo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council needs to push Iran to abide by an arms embargo, outgoing U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said on Wednesday amid U.N. concerns that Tehran has supplied weapons and missiles to Lebanese Shi’it…
Germany reviewing nearly 550 migrants deemed a security risk
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany said on Wednesday it would review the cases of nearly 550 asylum seekers who have been deemed a security risk, spurred by lingering questions about the handling of a Tunisian migrant who killed 12 people last month at a Berli…
Ukrainian president calls for global response to Russian threat
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for a worldwide effort to counter the threat of Russian cyber warfare and urged the United States to “be great again” by demonstrating leadership on issues such as global securi…
Slapping ex-PM Valls gets French teenager three-month suspended sentence
PARIS (Reuters) – A teenager who slapped former French prime minister Manuel Valls during an election campaign trip to Brittany was handed a three-month suspended sentence and was ordered to carry out 105 hours of community service, a prosecutor said o…
Teen shoots four, kills self at private school in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A teenage student suffering from depression shot three students and a teacher at a private school in northern Mexico on Wednesday before killing himself in what state officials called an unprecedented attack that was caught on s…
Germany says boosting defense spending, demands clear U.S. agenda
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany, under fire from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for not meeting NATO’s defense spending goal, is boosting military budgets, but also wants Trump to map out a consistent foreign policy agenda, Defense Minister Ursula von de…
