Special Report: How Russia allowed homegrown radicals to go and fight in Syria
NOVOSASITLI, Russia (Reuters) – Four years ago, Saadu Sharapudinov was a wanted man in Russia. A member of an outlawed Islamist group, he was hiding in the forests of the North Caucasus, dodging patrols by paramilitary police and plotting a holy war ag…
EU border agency says migrant arrivals in Greece drop 90 percent
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped 90 percent in April, the European Union border agency said on Friday, a sign that an agreement with Turkey to control traffic between the two countries is working.
China says hopes U.S., Vietnam ties benefit regional peace
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is happy to see Vietnam normalizing relations with the United States and hopes it benefits regional peace, China said on Friday as the United States considers lifting a three-decade-old arms embargo on Vietnam.
Insurgents kill 19 and capture dozens seizing Syrian Alawite village: Observatory
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Insurgents killed at least 19 civilians believed to be from families of fighters loyal to the Syrian government after capturing an Alawite village from government control in western Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
Strict security gets stricter at rare North Korean congress
PYONGYANG (Reuters) – North Korea may be the world’s most closely controlled society, but security during a week when thousands of Workers’ Party delegates were in town along with 128 foreign journalists was even tighter than usual.
Insight: War on Islamist militants tests Tunisia’s young democracy
TUNIS (Reuters) – Four days after Islamist militants shot dead 21 tourists in Tunisia’s Bardo museum last year, police rounded up dozens of people suspected of links with the gunmen.
French police evict protesters as unions plan week of unrest
PARIS (Reuters) – Riot police evicted dozens of people on Friday from a building they took over in protest against labor law reforms that are provoking street demonstrations and strike calls across France.
Germany says Russia probably behind cyber attack on Bundestag
BERLIN (Reuters) – Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany’s lower house of parliament last year which forced its computer systems to be shut down for days, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency sa…
New wave of migrants to Italy were not mainly Syrians: officials
ROME (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants were brought to Italy on Friday having been rescued from the sea over the past day, however the majority were not Syrian, as previously reported, but came from a variety of countries, officials said.
Eight Turkish soldiers, 22 militants killed as violence widens in southeast
DIYARBAKIR/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) – Eight Turkish soldiers and 22 Kurdish militants have been killed in clashes over the last two days, authorities said on Friday, as violence widened in the largely Kurdish southeast following two bombings.
