Campaigns for Britain to leave EU get biggest donations: watchdog
LONDON (Reuters) – Campaigns for Britain to leave the European Union in a referendum next month received 8.2 million pounds ($12 million) in donations, more than the funding received by the “In” campaign over 81 days.
Britain’s queen caught on camera calling Chinese officials ‘very rude’
LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth has been caught on camera saying Chinese officials were “very rude” during a state visit to Britain by President Xi Jinping that London had said would herald a “golden era” in relations with Beijing.
Egypt opens Gaza crossing for 48 hours after 85-day closure
GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt opened its border with Gaza for the first time in three months on Wednesday, giving Palestinians a two-day respite from a closure stemming from friction between Cairo and the enclave’s Islamist rulers.
Turkey has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria, Iraq: Erdogan
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that no other country is fighting Islamic State as Ankara is.
U.S. to switch on European missile shield despite Russian alarm
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – The United States’ European missile defense shield goes live on Thursday almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and despite Russian warnings that the West is threatening the peace in central…
Sturgeon ‘reasonably confident’ Scotland will vote to stay in EU
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday she is “reasonably confident” Scotland will vote to remain in the European Union in next month’s referendum.
Swiss panel finds no evidence of secret 1970s deal with PLO
ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss investigation has found no evidence that a former government minister struck a secret deal offering diplomatic assistance to the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1970 in exchange for the PLO halting attacks on Swiss targe…
U.N. investigators tell states to stop Syria war crimes
GENEVA (Reuters) – States backing Syria’s peace process must stop the warring parties from attacking unlawful targets such as hospitals and other civilian sites, U.N. war crimes investigators said in a statement on Wednesday.
Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh hanged an Islamist party leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, drawing an angry reaction but no immediate violence from his suppo…
In remote corner of Iraq, an unlikely alliance forms against Islamic State
UMM Al-DHIBAN, Iraq (Reuters) – They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have opened up a new front against Islamic State militants in a remote corner of Iraq.
