Sarkozy announces bid for 2017 presidential race
PARIS (Reuters) – Nicolas Sarkozy will run for president in 2017, hoping to return as France’s head of state after being unseated in 2012 by the now deeply unpopular Francois Hollande, he announced on Monday.
Pakistani police to charge ex-husband, father in suspected ‘honor killing’
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani police are preparing to charge a man with the murder of his former wife, a 28-year-old British woman who died last month in a suspected “honor killing”, the investigating officer in the case said on Monday.
Arms sales to Saudi ‘illicit’ due to civilian deaths in Yemen: campaigners
GENEVA (Reuters) – A group that campaigns for stricter arms sales controls said on Monday that Western powers were breaking international law by selling vast amounts of weapons to Saudi Arabia that are being used to hit civilians in Yemen.
Iraqi police remove suicide belt from 11-year-old
Iraqi police detained an 11-year-old boy near a Shi’ite mosque in Kirkuk city on Sunday (August 21) after removing a suicide vest from him.
Protesters attack Pakistani TV station, shots fired
KARACHI (Reuters) – Supporters of a powerful political party in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi fired shots at the office of a television channel on Monday before ransacking the building, police said.
Kurdish militia launches assault to evict Syrian army from key city of Hasaka
HASAKA, Syria (Reuters) – The Kurdish YPG militia launched a major assault on Monday to seize the last government-controlled parts of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka after calling on pro-government militias to surrender, Kurdish forces and resid…
Libya’s eastern parliament votes against U.N.-backed government in Tripoli
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Members of Libya’s eastern parliament voted on Monday to reject the U.N.-backed government in the capital, Tripoli, a spokesman for the chamber said.
Yet to take office, Tunisia’s rainbow government faces cloudy future
TUNIS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Youssef Chahed’s new government promises to be the most inclusive since Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, encompassing all six major parties, independents and allies of often hostile trade unions.
North Korea appeared to resume plutonium production this year, U.N. says
VIENNA (Reuters) – North Korea appeared to resume activities this year aimed at producing plutonium, which can be used in the core of an atomic bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog has confirmed, though it added that signs of those activities stopped last m…
Gaza militant rocket hits Israel, Israel responds with air strikes, shells
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and tanks responded by shelling the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the army and police said.
