Pope to visit Ireland, possibly Northern Ireland
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis will make the first papal trip to Ireland in nearly 40 years, the country’s prime minister said on Monday, amid signs he could also become the first Roman Catholic pope to visit Northern Ireland.
Divided Italians agree on one thing: scrapping ‘elephant graveyard’
ROME (Reuters) – Italians are fiercely divided over Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform, but there is one aspect of the plan everyone agrees on – scrapping a public body that even its own members refuse to defend.
Germany’s highest court rejects appeal by ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court has rejected an appeal filed by a man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, who was sentenced last year to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp.
Somali forces begin moving to attack Islamic State holding port town
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Hundreds of pro-government Somali forces began moving toward the port town of Qandala on Monday for an offensive against Islamic State fighters who seized it last month, Qandala’s mayor Jamac Mohamed Khurshe told Reuters.
Anti-EU party UKIP elect ex-chairman Paul Nuttall to replace Farage
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s anti-European Union UK Independence Party elected its former chairman Paul Nuttall as its new leader on Monday, as it seeks to overcome months of internal turmoil and capitalize on its successful Brexit campaign.
EU to keep patrolling for Somali pirates until end of 2018
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s naval mission will keep patrolling for pirates off the coast of Somalia for another two years, to guard against any resurgence of attacks, the bloc said on Monday.
Russian aircraft not behind strike on Turkish soldiers in Syria: Turkish deputy PM
ANKARA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed to Turkey that aircraft which carried out an attack on Turkish soldiers near the Syrian city of al-Bab last week did not belong to Russia, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus s…
Indonesia police, Muslim leaders aim for ‘super peaceful’ rally
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s police chief said that a rally to be held by Muslim groups on Friday calling for the ouster of Jakarta’s Christian governor would be “super peaceful” and confined to a park to help prevent a repeat of protest violence ea…
Germany has only modest hopes for Ukraine talks on Tuesday
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has only modest expectations for a meeting of foreign ministers in Minsk on Tuesday to discuss plans for implementing a ceasefire agreement for eastern Ukraine, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Gunmen kidnap three UNHCR workers in Sudan’s Darfur: local official
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation’s refugee agency in Sudan’s restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday.
