In eastern Mosul, residents fret over security and supplies
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi forces have pushed Islamic State out of the street where Yaqdhan Abdelnabi lives in Mosul, but the former sales manager is moving his five children to another part of the city because it is still dangerous.
Erdogan, Putin discuss Syria as Turkish-backed rebels push to al-Bab
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed an attack on Turkish troops in Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday as Turkish-backed rebels pressed an offensive to take the Syrian city of al-Bab from Islam…
Putin presents Russian passport to Hollywood actor Seagal
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U.S. actor Steven Seagal on Friday and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and Washington are starting to improve.
Norway’s supreme court rejects Edward Snowden extradition lawsuit
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s supreme court has rejected a lawsuit from fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden against the Norwegian government, upholding the verdict of two lower courts, it said on Friday.
After riot, Bulgaria to send migrants to closed camps, plans extraditions
HARMANLI, Bulgaria (Reuters) – Bulgaria will move migrants who clashed with police at a refugee camp to closed camps and hopes to start extraditing some to their native Afghanistan next month, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said on Friday.
Hunger and desperation: Aleppo siege tests limits of endurance
AMMAN (Reuters) – As Syria’s government presses a fierce assault on eastern Aleppo, its siege is making life ever harder for civilians who being forced to sift through garbage for food and scavenge firewood from bombed-out buildings.
Erdogan warns Europe that Turkey could open migrant gates
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Friday to unleash a new wave of migrants on Europe after lawmakers there voted for a temporary halt to Turkey’s EU membership negotiations, but behind the fighting talk, neither…
As Zimbabwe’s money runs out, so does Mugabe’s power
HARARE (Reuters) – In Zimbabwe, where worthless $100 trillion notes serve as reminders of the perils of hyperinflation, President Robert Mugabe is printing a new currency that jeopardizes not just the economy but his own long grip on power.
Filipinos march in Manila to protest dictator’s divisive burial
MANILA (Reuters) – Thousands of Filipinos demonstrated on Friday against last week’s burial of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes’ cemetery, showing disdain for the veneration afforded to a strongman accused of widespread plunder and brutalit…
In retaken areas of Mosul, Islamic State still inflicts pain
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – A medic peeled blood-soaked bandages from the arm of a boy in the emergency room of a hospital in northern Iraq, revealing the full extent of the damage inflicted by an Islamic State mortar attack.
