Flooding kills at least five people in Germany’s Bavaria
BERLIN (Reuters) – At least five people have been killed in floods caused by prolonged heavy rain in southern Germany’s Bavaria state and thousands of households were cut off from electricity, officials said on Thursday.
NATO chief says not seeking confrontation with Russia
BERLIN (Reuters) – The NATO military alliance is not seeking confrontation with Russia by reinforcing its battalions in eastern Europe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Berlin on Thursday.
U.S. expects announcement ‘soon’ on deployment of Korea anti-missile system
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Plans for the deployment of the U.S. THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea are moving forward and an announcement can be expected soon, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.
EgyptAir black box search zone narrows after signal detected
CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) – Search teams zeroed in on the wreckage of EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday after a French vessel picked up a signal from one of the crashed jet’s black boxes.
Militants kidnap 17 members of Afghanistan’s Hazara community
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Gunmen have kidnapped 17 members of Afghanistan’s Hazara community, officials said on Thursday, the latest incident involving members of the Shi’ite Muslim minority highlighting the risk of sectarian violence.
Iraq PM Abadi urges lawmakers to stop squabbling, rally behind army
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has appealed to politicians to “freeze” their wrangling over his anti-corruption reforms and unite behind the army as it battles Islamic State in Falluja, near Baghdad.
Terror case opens up Kuwait’s sectarian divisions
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwaiti security service officers raided farmhouses near the Iraqi border late last summer, slicing through carpets and smashing open concrete floors. Hidden in large plastic containers was a weapons cache, the largest discovered in …
Somalia ends operation to secure hotel bombed by al Shabaab
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali security forces have brought to an end a bomb and gun attack by militants on a central Mogadishu hotel that killed at least 16 people and wounded 55, authorities said on Thursday.
French strikes disrupt rail but air controllers’ stoppage averted
PARIS (Reuters) – Strikes halved French train services on Thursday but attempts by the militant CGT union to broaden protests against labor reforms to air traffic control and the Paris underground ahead of a European soccer tournament appeared to have …
Turkish PM says ‘irrational’ for Germany to approve genocide resolution
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday it would be “irrational” for the German parliament to approve a symbolic resolution that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide”.
