Exclusive: Kremlin plans special clinic for Putin’s top officials
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin is planning to build an exclusive health clinic for President Vladimir Putin and senior officials, according to documents seen by Reuters and to medical sources familiar with the project.
After Iran’s nuclear pact, state firms win most foreign deals
By Yeganeh Torbati, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Babak Dehghanpisheh
Army mutiny exposes cracks in Ivory Coast success story
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has seduced foreign investors with his single-minded focus on economic reform and growth but entrenched problems within the security forces threaten to undermine a much-lauded recovery.
Iraq counts on U.S. advisers, mostly out of sight, in war on Islamic State
BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) – When Iraqi forces faced a fierce Islamic State counter-attack last month at a hospital in Mosul they had stormed without enough troops to hold it, U.S. advisers behind the front lines shepherded them to safety.
Islamic State using online ‘headhunters’ to recruit young Germans
BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamic State is using “headhunters” on social media and instant messaging sites to recruit disaffected young people in Germany, some as young as 13 or 14, the head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency said on Thursday.
Iraqi sheep, locals, environment suffer Islamic State oil fires
QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – Shepherds herd blackened flocks through the Iraqi desert. Locals cough and wheeze under vast clouds of smoke, and NASA images show oil threatening to encroach on the Tigris River, a major water source.
Japan hotelier’s Nanjing Massacre denial sparks tourism boycott calls
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese hotelier’s denial of a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing has prompted Chinese social media calls for a boycott of travel to Japan, threatening tourist arrivals days before the Lunar New Year ho…
Afghan journalists face more threats as violence spreads
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan journalists say they are facing more risks than ever as both insurgents and unscrupulous government officials increasingly threaten, assault, and even murder reporters.
French Socialists still trail four other Presidential candidates as primary approaches: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Socialists still trail well behind four other main candidates for the French presidency days ahead of the first round of the party’s presidential primary, according to extracts from a new opinion poll published by Le Monde.
Web of investigations entangles Israel’s ‘King Bibi’
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has spent 30 years in public office, including 11 years as Israel’s prime minister, but this year his political future is being called into question as seldom before.
