End violence in Myanmar, Nobel laureates urge U.N. Security Council
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than a dozen Nobel laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to end “ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” in Myanmar’s troubled Rak…
Possible civilian casualties in Mosul air strike: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An air strike by the U.S.-led coalition near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul hit a van in a hospital compound parking lot and could have killed civilians, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country’s widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal violence surges again south of the border.
Ukraine hit by 6,500 hack attacks, sees Russian ‘cyberwar’
KIEV (Reuters) – Hackers have targeted Ukrainian state institutions about 6,500 times in the past two months, including incidents that showed Russian security services were waging a cyberwar against the country, President Petro Poroshenko said on Thurs…
Chilean Navy sailors accused of secretly filming female crewmates
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean authorities said on Thursday they are investigating allegations that female sailors were secretly videotaped in their quarters on a naval vessel and that those images were then shared via social media by other crew members….
Photographs of homeless ‘grave dwellers’ shock Iranians
DUBAI (Reuters) – Widely distributed images of dozens of homeless Iranians, many of them drug addicts, taking shelter in empty graves outside Tehran in freezing temperatures have prompted a public outcry and criticism from President Hassan Rouhani.
Russian embassy in Damascus hit by mortar shell again
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s embassy in Damascus was hit by a mortar shell on Thursday afternoon, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Polish president sends freedom of assembly bill to constitutional court
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has declined to sign the government’s freedom of assembly bill into law in the first such rejection since the Law and Justice party (PiS) took power in November last year.
Man purporting to be Boko Haram leader denies Sambisa forest defeat
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, denied the jihadist group has been pushed out of its stronghold in the Sambisa forest.
Iraqi forces launch second phase of Mosul offensive against Islamic State
NEAR MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces on Thursday began the second phase of their offensive against Islamic State militants in Mosul, pushing from three directions into eastern districts where the battle has been deadlocked for nearly a mo…
