Algerian named as dead Brussels gunman, manhunt goes on
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian prosecutors on Wednesday named a 35-year-old Algerian as the man shot dead by police on Tuesday during a police raid on a Brussels apartment in the hunt for clues to bloody attacks in Paris last November.
Libyans from all sides unite in Benghazi humanitarian appeal
GENEVA (Reuters) – In a rare show of Libyan unity, dozens of influential Libyans from Benghazi put aside their differences to appeal for help for their hometown, a center of violence in the country’s five-year-old conflict, on Wednesday.
Security fears haunt Turkey’s biggest cities after Ankara blast
ANKARA (Reuters) – Ibrahim Ozcan has worked at the fish market in Ankara’s usually bustling Sakarya street for more than 30 years, and even he struggles to remember a time when the heart of the Turkish capital has been this quiet.
Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria
RMEILAN, Syria (Reuters) – Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, Kurdish officials said on Wednesday, taking matters into their own hands after being excluded from talks in Geneva to resolve Syr…
Jailed Qatari poet released after royal pardon: family member
DOHA (Reuters) – A Qatari poet jailed for 15 years for reciting verses that praised the 2011 uprising in Tunisia and criticized his own country’s ruling family has been freed after receiving a royal pardon, a relative said on Wednesday.
Russia supplied weapons to Iraqi Kurds: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has supplied weapons to Iraqi Kurds, the first shipment arrived on March 14, RIA news agency quoted the Russian consulate in Iraq as saying on Wednesday.
Four arrested for planning attack in Paris: TF1 television
PARIS (Reuters) – French anti-terrorism police arrested four Islamist radicals on Wednesday on suspicion they were planning an imminent attack in central Paris, TF1 television said.
Mass killer Breivik complains of isolation, microwaved meals
SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) – Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court on Wednesday that Norway was trying to kill him with years of solitary confinement, complaining of degrading prison conditions, including microwaved meals that were “worse than w…
Bulgarian tycoon’s extradition case resumes in Belgrade court
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Legal wrangling resumed in Belgrade High Court on Wednesday over a Bulgarian request to extradite the main shareholder in the country’s insolvent Corporate Commercial Bank after the court’s initial decision to extradite him was ove…
Germany, France criticize Israel for seizing West Bank land
BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) – Germany and France on Wednesday criticized Israel’s decision to appropriate large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank, saying the move violated international law and contradicted a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palesti…
