Car bomb kills nine north of Baghdad, say sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed and 32 wounded on Tuesday when a car packed with explosives was detonated in a district just north of Baghdad, security and medical sources said.
After nuclear deal, Iran sticks to wary tactics in key Gulf waterway
ABOARD THE USS NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday dispatched five military vessels to monitor a U.S. warship hosting one of America’s top generals on a day trip through the Strait of Hormuz, coming as close as 500 …
Images show high level of activity at North Korea nuclear site: monitor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Recent satellite images show a high level of activity at North Korea’s nuclear test site but it is unclear whether this was for maintenance or preparation for a fifth nuclear test, a U.S.-based North Korea monitoring project said…
U.S. to send more troops to Iraq ahead of Mosul offensive
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United States is stepping up its military campaign against Islamic State by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on the city of Mosul, the militants’ largest stronghold, later this year.
South African twins planned attacks on U.S. Embassy, Jewish buildings
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African twins arrested over the weekend were planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Pretoria, as well as on buildings owned by Jewish people, police said on Monday.
Australian convicted of recruiting foreign fighters for Islamic State: ABC
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian court on Tuesday convicted Sydney man Hamdi Al Qudsi of recruiting six young men to travel overseas and fight alongside Islamic State and al Qaeda affiliates in Syria.
Citibank to close Venezuela government accounts: Maduro
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday that Citibank NA , planned to shut his government’s foreign currency accounts within a month, denouncing the move by one of its main foreign financial intermediaries as part of a “…
South Sudan leaders order ceasefire as civil war fears grow
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s president and vice president ordered their loyalists to cease hostilities on Monday after days of fighting threatened to plunge the country back into civil war and bring further instability to an impoverished region of Af…
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen museum closes over legal woes
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s only museum commemorating the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is to close temporarily after a long-running legal battle with the management and owners of the building it is housed in.
For China, Trump perhaps better the devil they don’t know
BEIJING (Reuters) – In 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provoked outrage in Beijing when she pushed the South China Sea to the top of the regional and U.S. security agendas.
