Ghana votes as President Mahama seeks a final term
ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana voted on Wednesday in a presidential election that looks set to be a tight race, with the incumbent John Mahama seeking a second term in charge of an economy that has slowed since he took power.
Dozens killed in west Iraq air strike, MPs and medics say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Air strikes killed dozens of people, including many women and children, in an Islamic State-held town near Iraq’s western border with Syria on Wednesday, two parliamentarians and local hospital sources said.
Germany’s top court rules Muslim schoolgirls must join swimming lessons
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that even wearing a burkini, or full-body swimsui…
U.S. urges Yemen to accept U.N.-drafted roadmap for peace talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States expressed disappointment on Wednesday at the Yemeni government’s reaction to a U.N.-drafted roadmap to end the country’s civil war and urged it to accept the proposal as a basis to begin negotiations on a peace …
Brazil Supreme Court judge votes to keep Senate head in job
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The longest-serving member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Justice Celso de Mello, voted on Wednesday to overrule an injunction ordering the head of the Senate to step down following an embezzlement indictment.
Rome, Cairo prosecutors meet in Regeni case, but no breakthrough
ROME (Reuters) – Egyptian prosecutors investigating the murder of student Giulio Regeni gave their Italian counterparts a pile of new documents on Wednesday, but there has been no breakthrough in the case, a judicial source said.
U.N. urges Sri Lanka to probe ongoing torture, war crimes
GENEVA/COLOMBO (Reuters) – A U.N. rights watchdog called on Sri Lanka on Wednesday to investigate “routine torture” of detainees by security forces and rebuked its government for failing to prosecute war crimes committed during the country’s 26-year ci…
How Iran closed the Mosul ‘horseshoe’ and changed Iraq war
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – In the early days of the assault on Islamic State in Mosul, Iran successfully pressed Iraq to change its battle plan and seal off the city, an intervention which has since shaped the tortuous course of the conflict, sour…
Israel’s Netanyahu gives conditional ‘No’ to meeting Palestinian president in Paris
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he had told French President Francois Hollande that he would not meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas if France pushed ahead with an international peace conference …
Left-wing voter support jumps for former French PM Valls: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Left-leaning voter support for former French prime minister Manuel Valls has surged since he announced he was seeking the Socialist nomination for the presidential election next spring, a poll showed on Wednesday.
