Al Qaeda says Ivory Coast attack was revenge against France
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North African branch said its attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast on Sunday that killed 18 people was revenge for a French offensive against Islamist militants in the Sahel region and called for its forces to withdraw…
Seat at geopolitical top table allowed Putin to scale back in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin cited Russian military success in Syria as his reason for scaling back his forces there. But his belief that the intervention delivered him a seat at the top table of world affairs is more likely to have tipped his han…
In Senegal, a beach town slowly wakes up to Islamist threat
SALY, Senegal (Reuters) – Two days after al Qaeda gunman shot dead 18 people on an Ivory Coast beach, tourists strolled nonchalantly down a similar stretch of sand in the Senegalese resort of Saly on Tuesday, browsing trinkets on sale and paddling in t…
Top French Catholic cleric denies covering up acts of paedophilia
PARIS (Reuters) – One of France’s most senior Catholic clerics on Tuesday denied having covered up acts of paedophilia, his second denial in two weeks, after Prime Minister Manuel Valls demanded that he take responsibility for the situation.
U.S. eases Cuba trade and travel rules ahead of Obama visit
WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) – The United States unveiled new measures on Tuesday to make it far easier for Americans to visit Cuba and eased limits on the use of U.S dollars in trade there as President Barack Obama prepared to make a historic trip to H…
Seventeen corpses found after Venezuela miners’ massacre
CARACAS (Reuters) – Seventeen corpses have been recovered from a mass grave in the rising toll from a massacre of miners in Venezuela’s southern jungle, authorities said on Tuesday.
Slovak PM Fico agrees program with potential coalition partners
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Tuesday his leftist Smer party and three other parties have signed an agreement on a governing program as part of talks on forming a coalition, following an election earlier this month.
In muddy Bekaa Valley camp, Jolie urges support for Syria refugees
SAADNAYEL, Lebanon (Reuters) – U.N. special envoy Angelina Jolie urged world powers on Tuesday to do more to end Syria’s five-year war and help the millions who have fled the conflict, as she visited refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
Deadly fighting spreads in southeast Turkey after Ankara bomb
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants spread on Tuesday, with tanks, helicopters and armored cars deployed after a suicide bombing that killed 37 people in the capital Ankara.
‘Asylum Chaos’ – German magazine spreads word of rising anti-immigrant party
BERLIN (Reuters) – With headlines like “Asylum Chaos”, a German magazine is spreading the views of an anti-immigrant party that has vaulted into three state legislatures due to voter anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy towards refuge…
