Australia, Indonesia consider joint South China Sea naval patrols
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is considering joint naval patrols with Indonesia in the contested South China Sea, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday.
Syrian army says rebel bombardment of Aleppo killed 84 in three days
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s army said on Monday the Nusra Front and what the army called other terrorist groups had killed 84 people, mostly women and children, in Aleppo during the past three days, in a bombardment that included chemical weapons and r…
Practical matters will outweigh puritanism for evangelical Rio mayor
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – In a city best known for bacchanalia and flesh-filled beaches, the election of an evangelical bishop as mayor has some free-wheeling residents of Rio fretting.
U.N. says tank shell hits its Aleppo office
GENEVA (Reuters) – A tank shell hit the United Nations office in western Aleppo on Sunday, damaging the top floors of a building that is well known to be the U.N. base in the contested Syrian city, a U.N. statement said on Monday.
Iraqi forces make first push into Mosul
EAST OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Advancing Iraqi troops broke through Islamic State defenses in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgents’ stronghold into the city limits for the first time, a force commander said.
Erdogan rides patriotic wave with crackdown at home, combative policy abroad
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – In the three and half months since a failed military coup, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 110,000 people, launched a military incursion into Syria, and repeatedly threatened to do the same in Iraq.
Police swoop on Paris migrant camp after Calais Jungle clearout
PARIS (Reuters) – French riot police swooped on a makeshift migrant camp in northeast Paris on Monday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where numbers have soared since the closure of the Jungle shanty town in the northern port city of Calais.
Belgium, Congo activists urge probe into Congo corruption claims
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Belgium’s foreign minister and democracy activists in Democratic Republic of Congo called on Congolese authorities to investigate allegations that high-ranking officials stole millions of dollars in public funds.
Iraqi in wheelchair makes risky escape from Islamic State
BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where Islamic State snipers three days earlier had shot dead a couple seeking freedom from thei…
Czech finance minister’s party jumps in polls after regional election victory
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Billionaire Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis’s ANO party has jumped in voter ratings following its victory in regional elections this month, widening its lead over the ruling Social Democrats a year before national polls.
