Abandoned villages on road to Mosul rigged with tunnels and bombs
SHEIKH AMIR, Iraq (Reuters) – A deep tunnel, booby-trapped with an improvised explosive device, burrows under houses at the entrance to the village. Nearby, an anti-personnel mine lies half buried in a dirt road.
Croatia parliament approves new conservative-led cabinet
ZAGREB (Reuters) – The Croatian parliament approved on Wednesday a new government led by the conservative HDZ party leader Andrej Plenkovic whose main task will be to boost growth and sort out fragile public finances in one of the weakest European Unio…
Finnish government drops Guggenheim museum plans: PM
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s center-right government has dropped plans to help build a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki with state funding, Prime Minister Juha Sipila said on Wednesday.
Haitians vulnerable on Mexico-U.S. border as migrant crisis escalates
MEXICALI, Mexico (Reuters) – Camped in migrant centers, broken-down rooms of a dingy, semi-derelict hotel and on church floors, thousands of Haitians desperate to enter the United States are in limbo and exposed to crime in dangerous border neighborhoo…
Major Russian naval deployment to intensify Aleppo assault: NATO diplomat
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russian warships off the coast of Norway are carrying fighter bombers that are likely to reinforce a final assault on the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo in two weeks, a senior NATO diplomat said on Wednesday, citing Western intelli…
On Syrian border, rebel goals not all shared by Turkish backers
JARABLUS, Syria (Reuters) – Two months after driving Islamic State from this Syrian border town, the young rebel fighters patrolling its streets nurse an ambition beyond the aims of their Turkish backers: to break the siege of Aleppo.
Honduran land rights activists shot dead in latest attack
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Hooded gunmen shot dead two land rights activists in Honduras, the government confirmed on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks on rights groups in the Central American country.
Latin America’s left set to suffer new blow at Chilean local polls
VALPARAISO/SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean voters are expected to shift right in local elections this weekend, dealing a blow to the center-left governing coalition and serving a further setback to Latin America’s already struggling leftist movement.
Police disperse Cape Town student protesters with rubber bullets
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South African police used rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of student protesters demanding free education at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, a Reuters witness said.
Gunman kills two American advisers, wounds three in Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – A gunman, reportedly in an Afghan army uniform, shot dead two American advisers and wounded three on Wednesday near a base outside the Afghan capital before being killed himself, officials said.
