Sri Lanka appoints war winning army chief as minister
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka on Thursday appointed as a cabinet minister its first five-star field marshal and the former army general who led the military to victory in a 26-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists.
Israel says Sudanese who wounded soldier was Islamic State sympathizer
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Sudanese migrant who stabbed and wounded a soldier in Israel two weeks ago was motivated by Islamic State ideology, the Shin Bet internal security service said on Thursday.
Cambodian PM tells troops to fire rockets at illegal loggers
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s prime minister on Thursday called for a bigger effort to curb illicit timber trade, saying he had ordered military police to fire rockets from helicopters if they saw illegal loggers at work.
U.S., China agree on draft North Korea sanctions resolution at U.N.: envoys
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and China have agreed on a draft resolution that would expand U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea over its latest nuclear test and hope to put it to a vote in the coming days, council diploma…
Islamist mortar attack kills four in Somali capital – police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab killed four people and injured eight others on Thursday in a mortar attack near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, police and a spokesman for the group said.
A year on from Nigerian election victory, Buhari’s reforms founder
ABUJA (Reuters) – Almost a year after winning an election on promises to fix Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari’s grand vision of reform is fading, with power centralized in his increasingly remote presidency and the bureaucracy in disarray.
EU says puzzled by Hungarian migrant referendum
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hungary’s plan to hold a referendum on EU proposals to transfer asylum seekers around the bloc may be at odds with an agreed strategy to handle the refugee crisis, the European Commission said on Thursday.
Ugandans brace for Musenveni life presidency bid
KAMPALA (Reuters) – While Ugandans spar over President Yoweri Museveni’s disputed re-election this month, a bigger battle is already looming: whether the country will change its constitution to allow him to stay in power for life.
Hungary says referendum on EU migrant quotas to affect future plans only
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s planned referendum on introducing mandatory quotas to resettle migrants in the European Union will only cover future proposals as Hungary has already challenged a previous EU quota decision in court, the foreign minister …
Deporting foreigners for breaking the law is hot issue as Swiss ready for polls
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss voters will face decisions on whether to deport foreign lawbreakers to building a second tunnel through the Gotthard mountain range when they go to the polls on Sunday.
