Pakistan says kills 100 ‘terrorists’ after suicide shrine attack
SEHWAN SHARIF, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces killed dozens of suspected militants on Friday, a day after Islamic State claimed a suicide bombing that killed more than 80 worshippers at a Sufi shrine, the biggest in a spate of attacks t…
China sees chance of six-party talks with North Korea
MUNICH (Reuters) – China has not given up hope for a new round of diplomacy with North Korea to prevent Pyongyang making further advances in its weapons program in violation of U.N. resolutions, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.
Ecuador’s paraplegic presidential candidate stirs hope for disabled
QUITO (Reuters) – An aide wheels out Ecuador’s presidential candidate Lenin Moreno, who lost the use of his legs two decades ago, to a stage in a working-class area of the mountainous capital Quito.
Fillon says staying in French presidential race come what may
PARIS (Reuters) – Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon said on Friday he would stay in the race come what may, after saying for weeks that he would step down if he were put under formal investigation over his wife’s employment.
Islamic State ‘bureaucrats’ fleeing stronghold in Syria: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Islamic State administrators and bureaucrats have started to flee the militant group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa as a U.S.-backed alliance works to isolate the city, a Pentagon official said on Friday.
EU official accuses Polish minister of using ‘alternative facts’
MUNICH (Reuters) – The number two official at the European Commission accused the Polish foreign minister in a heated exchange on Friday of using “alternative facts” to defend Warsaw’s controversial judicial changes that Brussels says threaten the rule…
Thousands of Belarussians take to the streets to protest ‘parasite law’
MINSK (Reuters) – About 2,000 Belarussians staged one of the country’s largest protests in recent years on Friday to voice their opposition to a law that imposes a tax on those not in full-time employment.
Migrant children returning to Calais, say NGOs, after ‘jungle’ demolished
PARIS (Reuters) – Some 300 to 400 migrants, mostly unaccompanied children, have made their way back to Calais in northern France over the past few weeks in the hope of reaching Britain, non-government associations say.
Captive Islamic State militant says mass rapes were ‘normal’
SULAIYMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Islamic State militant Amar Hussein says he reads the Koran all day in his tiny jail cell to become a better person. He also says he raped more than 200 women from Iraqi minorities, and shows few regrets.
Former PM Blair urges Britons to ‘rise up’ against May’s Brexit plan
LONDON (Reuters) – Former British prime minister Tony Blair issued a battle cry against a so-called ‘hard Brexit’ on Friday, calling on voters, businesses and campaigners to “rise up” and back a coordinated effort to temper the terms of, or even halt, …
