How Gambia’s top brass turned on long-ruling Jammeh
BANJUL (Reuters) – Seconds after the chairman of Gambia’s electoral commission read out the poll results that ended President Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule to reporters, a policeman left the building, cheering and clapping his hands in the air.
U.S. estimates 50,000 Islamic State fighters killed so far: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military believes that some 50,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the United States started battling the group more than two years ago, a senior U.S. military official said on Thursday, calling it a “conse…
ICC to discuss South Africa’s failure to arrest Sudan’s Bashir
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – International Criminal Court judges asked South Africa on Thursday to send representatives to a hearing next year to determine whether it had breached its obligation to arrest Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir in June.
UK Supreme Court president says it will give Article 50 case judgment ‘as soon as possible’
LONDON (Reuters) – The UK Supreme Court will give its judgment on whether Prime Minister Theresa May can trigger the formal process for Britain to leave the European Union without parliament’s approval “as soon as possible”, its president said on Thurs…
France jails couple for falsely claiming Paris attacks money
GRASSE, France (Reuters) – A French couple who were granted 30,000 euros ($32,000) each after falsely claiming to be victims of the November 2015 attacks in Paris by Islamist militants received prison sentences on Thursday.
No respite for Libya after Islamic State driven from coastal city
TUNIS (Reuters) – As Islamic State’s last defenses crumbled this week in their Libyan bastion Sirte, dozens of women and children used as human shields stumbled dazed and dust-caked from the rubble.
Airlines call for alternative to ‘useless’ U.N. security database
GENEVA (Reuters) – Airlines said on Thursday a U.N. warning mechanism designed to avoid a repeat of the 2014 downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine is “useless” and called for urgent new ways of detecting dangers to aircraft posed by war zones.
Crowded field for French Socialist candidate, but Valls still seen ahead
PARIS (Reuters) – Two more French Socialist politicians prepared to join a jostling field for the party’s presidential nomination on Thursday though polls showed Manuel Valls, who quit as premier launch his campaign, to be holding a solid lead.
German move on new ship radars paves way for missile defense role
HAMBURG (Reuters) – The German military is to buy new, more capable air defence radar systems for three F-124 frigates, paving the way for the ships to become part of NATO’s broader missile defence system, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday….
Canada spy official doubts intelligence-sharing under Trump: report
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian official who oversees the country’s spies says Ottawa may have to rethink how it provides intelligence to the United States, given incoming President Donald Trump’s views on torture, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
