Biden seeks to ease Turkey tensions over coup suspect Gulen
ANKARA (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Turkey over its demands for extradition of a cleric it blames for July’s failed coup, saying Washington was cooperating but needed evidence to meet U.S. legal st…
Merkel urges judicious moves by remaining EU states after Brexit vote
TALLINN (Reuters) – The 27 countries that will remain in the European Union after Britain leaves must listen to each other carefully and avoid rushing into policy decisions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.
North Korea fires submarine-launched ballistic missile towards Japan
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500 km (311 miles) towards Japan, a show of improving technological capability for the isolated country that has conducted a series of launches in defiance of…
French Muslims fear renewed stigmatization in burkini ban
PARIS (Reuters) – French Muslims are concerned that decisions taken by some municipal authorities to ban the burkini could lead to further stigmatization of Muslims, the head of a body representing Muslims in France said on Wednesday.
Israeli soldier shoots dead Palestinian driver in West Bank: army
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli soldier on Wednesday shot dead a Palestinian motorist who had stabbed him and also threw rocks from his car at a military vehicle in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said.
Myanmar earthquake kills three, damages scores of ancient temples
YANGON (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people including two children, and damaging scores of centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around the ancient capital of Bagan.
Two women lynched, set on fire in Congo as ethnic tensions flare
BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Two Hutu women were dragged out of a minibus, lynched and their bodies set on fire by a crowd in eastern Congo, the local mayor said on Wednesday, as inter-ethnic tensions in the region surge in the wak…
France deploys reserve force, ramps anti-terror drills in new school year
PARIS (Reuters) – France will deploy about 3,000 reserve troops, train school authorities and ramp up school anti-terror drills in case of attacks, its education and security ministers announced on Wednesday, a week before the start of a new academic y…
France’s DCNS says India submarine data leak may be ‘economic warfare’
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) – French naval contractor DCNS said on Wednesday it may have been the victim of “economic warfare” after secrets about its Scorpene submarines being built in India were leaked.
To deter refugees, Norway readies fence on ex-Cold War border
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway is putting up a steel fence at a remote Arctic border post with Russia after an influx of migrants last year, sparking an outcry from refugees’ rights groups and fears that cross- border ties with the former Cold War adversary …
