New Panama leaks show offshore firm linked to associate of Ukraine’s Poroshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – A deputy director of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s confectionery empire is a beneficiary of a company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), according to new information from the leaked “Panama Papers”.
Gunmen kill five security personnel in Nigerian Delta, oil companies evacuate staff
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen killed two policemen in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta as they slept in a security post on Monday evening and three soldiers were killed in a second attack, police and the army said.
New Lebanese movement says wins 40 percent of Beirut municipal poll
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A new Lebanese protest movement said on Tuesday it had won 40 percent of the vote in weekend municipal elections and hailed the result as a blow against the political establishment even though it failed to win any council seats.
Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey’s Diyarbakir kills three: sources
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A car bomb killed three people and wounded 45 when it struck a police vehicle on Tuesday in Diyarbakir, the main city in southeastern Turkey where security forces are trying to crush a Kurdish militant insurgency, the gov…
Cameron says leaders of ‘fantastically corrupt’ countries to attend British anti-graft summit
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit.
Man kills one at Munich station
MUNICH (Reuters) – A German man suffering from psychiatric problems stabbed four people at a train station near Munich early on Tuesday, killing one man and wounding three more in an attack investigators said did not appear to be politically motivated….
Germany expanding military ranks to counter Islamist, cyber threats
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany plans to add 7,000 military jobs and 4,400 civilians to its armed forces over the next seven years to help tackle demands such as cybersecurity and the fight against Islamic State, its defense minister said on Tuesday.
German court rejects Erdogan bid for injunction against media CEO
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German court on Tuesday rejected a request by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a preliminary injunction preventing the head of German publisher Axel Springer repeating a derogatory term.
Syrian refugees beaten, shot by Turkish border guards: rights group
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish border guards have beaten and shot Syrians trying to reach Turkey, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, as fighting in the border province of Aleppo intensifies threatening to force more people to flee.
North Korea’s Kim caps rare congress with colorful mass rally
PYONGYANG (Reuters) – Thousands of ecstatic North Koreans joined a mass rally and parade on Tuesday as leader Kim Jong Un capped off the consolidation of his power at a ruling party congress at which he formalized its claim to be a nuclear weapons powe…
