Palestinian activist’s U.S. immigration fraud conviction vacated
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell U.S. authorities she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two…
Two miners found dead, 28 still trapped after accident at Russian mine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two miners were found dead on Thursday evening and the search for 28 more miners was continuing after an accident in a coal mine owned by a subsidiary of Severstal in Russia’s northern Komi Republic.
Argentine investigator says Nisman death points to murder
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An Argentine prosecutor who died last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran’s alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish center was apparently murdered, an official investigating the c…
French teacher to stand trial over charges of making up Islamic State attack
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – A teacher at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Marseille will stand trial in April after investigators concluded that he falsely reported being stabbed by Islamic State supporters, the prosecutors said on Thur…
Italy seeks to keep allies in check as Libya wrangles over government
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is resisting pressure to allow aircraft and armed drones to stage attacks on Islamic State militants in Libya from its territory, saying on Thursday that direct Western military intervention on the ground there was “unthinkable”….
Bomb explosion at police station kills 4 in northern Nigeria
YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Several explosives seized from Boko Haram militants blew up at a police station in northern Nigeria on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said.
Conciliator Rouhani seeks gains for moderates in Iran polls
(Reuters) – President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist trying to open Iran after years of sanctions, and his allies carry the hopes of many Iranians for greater freedoms on Friday when the country holds elections for parliament and the Assembly of Experts….
Greece recalls Vienna ambassador in row over worsening migrant logjam
ATHENS (Reuters) – Struggling with a growing logjam of refugees, Greece recalled its ambassador to Vienna on Thursday in protest at moves by Austria and Balkan states to make it harder for migrants to head north across Europe.
Thousands of West Africans gain identity documents, 1 million still stateless: U.N.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 20,000 people in West Africa have gained identity documents in the past year as part of a drive to eradicate statelessness, yet around one million in the region still have no nationality, the United Nation…
Turkish court rules rights violated in arrest of prominent journalists: acting editor
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday that the detention of two prominent journalists from the Cumhuriyet newspaper violated their rights, and their release is expected imminently, the newspaper’s acting editor-in-chief t…
