Four people die in Slovenia plane crash
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Four people were killed in a crash of a small 6-seat plane in western Slovenia on Thursday, the Slovenian police said.
Britain’s new PM May gives Johnson big job, says needs time before Brexit talks
LONDON (Reuters) – Theresa May became Britain’s prime minister on Wednesday with the task of leading it out of the European Union, and quickly named leading ‘Brexit’ supporters including former London mayor Boris Johnson to key positions in her new gov…
Kerry to offer Russia military coordination on Syria: Washington Post
PARIS (Reuters) – The United States will propose increasing military cooperation and sharing intelligence with Russia to identify and target Islamic State and al Qaeda headquarters, training camps and supply routes in Syria, the Washington Post reporte…
At heavily fortified DMZ, South Korean troops swap boots for ballet shoes
PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – The 15 male ballet students groaned as they strained to do the splits and laughed with relief after their teacher counted to five and let them relax.
Pamplona bull run festival closes with 8 hurt, no gorings
PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) – Eight people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, though no one was gored on Thursday during the last bull run of the nine-day San Fermin festival in the northern city of Pamplona.
In economic crisis, Putin helps a mogul he once attacked
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Last month, three major banks rescued industrialist Igor Zyuzin’s coal and steel firm Mechel from what would have been Russia’s biggest ever corporate collapse.
Islamic State says ‘minister of war’ Shishani killed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Abu Omar al-Shishani, who the Pentagon described as Islamic State’s “minister of war”, was killed in combat in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, a news agency that supports the militant group said on Wednesday.
Austria interior minister rejects proposed EU-wide asylum seeker right to work: paper
VIENNA – Austria’s conservative interior minister rejected a proposal for more unified asylum rules in the European Union under which all member countries would grant asylum seekers the right to work, according to a newspaper interview published on Thu…
Pro-Brexit Gove sacked from the British government: Sky News
LONDON (Reuters) – Prominent pro-Brexit campaigner Michael Gove has been sacked from his cabinet post of justice secretary by Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May, Sky News reported on Thursday citing sources.
Clashes with Kurdish rebels devastate Turkish World Heritage site
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – When the United Nations inscribed the Roman-era walls of this mainly Kurdish city on its World Heritage list last year, it crowned a decade of efforts to rehabilitate a war-torn region.
