Nigerian traditional rulers want prisoners freed before Delta talks
ABUJA (Reuters) – Traditional leaders in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta have demanded that authorities release youths arrested by the army before they will mediate in talks with militants who have been blowing up pipelines, a government official s…
Indonesia’s most-wanted awakens new generation of jihadis
SOLO, Indonesia (Reuters) – During a May 2011 shootout, Indonesia’s counter-terrorism forces killed the leader of a militant group thought to be behind a series of failed bomb attempts around the city of Solo in Central Java.
Anti-nuclear governor in Japan asks Kyushu Electric to suspend nuke plant
TOKYO (Reuters) – A local Japanese governor on Friday asked Kyushu Electric Power to temporarily suspend the Sendai nuclear plant, one of two operating in the nation, further clouding efforts by the government and utilities to restart more idled reacto…
Russia backs 48-hour Aleppo truce, U.N. wants other sides to commit
GENEVA (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to a 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the divided Syrian city of Aleppo to allow aid deliveries, but security guarantees are awaited from other parties on the ground, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
Death toll in Somalia beach restaurant attack rises to 10
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The death toll from an attack late on Thursday by Islamic militants on a seaside restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 10, police said.
American university attack hits at heart of Afghan liberal learning
KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – With its spacious, leafy campus, foreign professors and English-language MBAs, the American University in Kabul offers young Afghan students the kind of Western-style education unimaginable for most of their peers.
Migrant influx pushes German population growth to highest since 1992
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s population registered its biggest increase in more than 20 years in 2015, data showed on Friday, as record numbers of migrants entered the country.
Hungary to build second fence on Serbian border to keep out migrants
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary plans to build a second fence on its southern border with Serbia that would enable it to keep out any major new wave of migrants, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
U.S. aid to Pakistan shrinks amid mounting frustration over militants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan’s continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to the United States, coupled with warming U.S. military and business relations with India, is sharply diminishing Islamabad’s strategic importance as an ally to Washington, U.S. military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials and outside experts said.
Turkey fires on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria offensive
KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances.
