Careful steps for Catholic Church tasked with pulling Congo back from crisis
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The task of preventing Democratic Republic of Congo’s political crisis from spiraling into fresh conflict falls to the country’s Catholic Church, one of the few institutions to emerge from decades of turmoil with its credibility intact.
Greek court decides to extradite three Turkish soldiers, they appeal: lawyer
ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek court decided on Tuesday to extradite three Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup against President Tayyip Erdogan in July, one of their lawyers said.
China’s latest UK buy: the prime minister’s countryside pub
LONDON (Reuters) – When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Britain last year and went for a drink with then Prime Minister David Cameron, he walked away with a smile on his face.
UK PM May faces parliamentary rebellion over refusal to publish Brexit plans
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a rebellion among her own lawmakers when parliament debates whether the government should set out its Brexit plan before triggering formal divorce talks with the European Union.
In bid to belong, Israeli Arabs sign up for Israel’s army
KISUFIM, Israel (Reuters) – A battalion of soldiers crawls across the desert sand with assault rifles cocked. It’s a routine exercise, but these are no ordinary troops – they are Arabs who have chosen to fight for the Jewish state.
Europol to ‘look again’ at worst migrant drowning of 2016
LONDON (Reuters) – The head of Europe’s police agency said it would “look again” at the largest migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean this year after an investigation by Reuters and BBC Newsnight exposed a gap in the response by law enforcement.
Ugandan LRA fighter denies atrocity charges, says he was victim
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A Ugandan man accused of being a senior commander in the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army pleaded not guilty to murder, rape and other charges on Tuesday, telling the International Criminal Court he had been a victim of the guerril…
Turkey detains adviser to main opposition party chairman in post-coup probe: Hurriyet
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained an adviser to the head of the main opposition party over suspected links to the July coup, the Hurriyet newspaper said, the first time someone close to the senior ranks of the secular oppositio…
Obama to deliver speech defending his counterterrorism fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will make the case on Tuesday that his counterterrorism policies have helped protect Americans from evolving international threats as he prepares to hand over the White House to a successor who has been cri…
Polish top court upholds verdict that Polanski cannot be extradited
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s supreme court upheld on Tuesday an earlier district court verdict that Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski cannot be extradited to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction.
