Whisked to Rome from Khartoum: people-smuggling kingpin or wrong man?
ROME (Reuters) – The slender Eritrean man with a close-cropped beard was arrested by Sudanese police on the afternoon of May 24 at a coffee shop in Khartoum. Two weeks later, he was flown to Italy in what Italian and British officials hailed as a rare …
Thailand’s king shows improvement following heart treatment: palace
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s 88-year-old king, the world’s longest reigning monarch, has shown signs of improvement following surgery for narrowing of the arteries, the palace said in a statement on Sunday.
Iraqi forces gain ground against Islamic State south of Mosul
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi troops advanced against Islamic State south of Mosul on Sunday as the U.S.-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the militants on multiple fronts across their self-proclaimed caliphate.
Suicide bomber hits field hospital near Libya’s Sirte
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed three people at a field hospital for forces fighting Islamic State in their Libyan coastal stronghold of Sirte on Sunday, a security source said, and medical staff appealed for help in treating the wounded.
Russia and England could be expelled from Euro 2016 if violence persists
PARIS/MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – European soccer’s governing body has warned the English and Russian soccer associations that their teams could be disqualified from Euro 2016 if there is a continuation of the fan violence that has injured several do…
‘Road of death’ to Aleppo pounded as air strikes cut off rebel areas
GAZIANTEP, Turkey/AMMAN (Reuters) – The opposition-held sector of Syria’s divided city of Aleppo has been cut off from the outside world in recent days by an escalation of air and artillery strikes on the only road in, putting hundreds of thousands of …
Thousands flee Falluja using first safe exit route secured by Iraqi army
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – The Iraqi army said on Sunday it had secured the first safe exit route for civilians to leave Islamic State’s besieged stronghold Falluja, and a Norwegian aid group said thousands of people had already used it to flee in…
‘We want food!’ Looting and riots rock Venezuela daily
CARACAS (Reuters) – A young woman faints in the heat as hundreds fight for pasta, screaming they are hungry. Slum-dwellers and armed gangs wait for nightfall to hijack food trucks or ransack stores. A mother is shot dead fleeing police after hundreds s…
Rwanda expels Burundians who say they were accused of spying
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Rwanda has expelled about 400 Burundians back to their country accusing some of them of espionage and fuelling tensions between the two small neighbors whose relations have been strained by Burundi’s political crisis, an official sa…
Finland’s center-right replaces outspoken Stubb as party chief
(The online version of this June 11 story has been corrected to change ‘center-right’ from ‘center’ in the headline)
