Kurds won’t attend Syria talks, Saudi-backed opponents to take lead: Fabius
PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian Kurdish officials will not be invited to peace talks in Geneva, where negotiations for the opposition will be led by a Saudi-backed opposition group, France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
Indonesia evacuates hundreds of members of sect after clashes
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian security forces on Wednesday evacuated hundreds of members of a group authorities have called a deviant religious organization to the capital, Jakarta, after sectarian violence drove them from their homes in West Kalimant…
African leaders trying to push Burundi to take peacekeepers: officials
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – African states are trying to push President Pierre Nkurunziza to accept peacekeeping troops at a summit this week to prevent Burundi sliding back into ethnic conflict but there is little hope that he will agree, officials said.
Bosnia not ready for EU membership: diplomats
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Bosnia has not met the criteria for European Union membership and the bloc’s 28 countries are far from agreeing to take in the ex-Yugoslav republic, diplomats in Brussels said after Sarajevo announced it would file its application …
German cabinet backs deportation law for foreign criminals
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government backed a new law on Wednesday to make it easier to deport foreign nationals who commit crimes, in the wake of attacks on women on New Year’s Eve, many blamed on migrants.
Britain’s unions ready to join fight to stay in European Union, top official says
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s trade unions are close to joining the push to keep the country in the European Union, bringing grass-roots muscle to a fight that has so far been dominated by big business and bankers, the head of the country’s largest unio…
German police arrest two suspects linked to Nazi propaganda website
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police on Wednesday arrested two people in raids against a far-right group suspected of using an Internet portal to incite violence against foreigners, spread Nazi propaganda and deny the Holocaust, the public prosecutor gener…
Israel letter shows Eichmann sought clemency as ‘mere instrument’ of Nazis
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial.
U.S. slams Taiwan president’s planned visit to contested South China Sea island
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s planned trip to the Taiwanese-held island of Itu Aba in the disputed South China Sea is “extremely unhelpful” and won’t do anything to resolve disputes over the waterway, a U.S. official said on Wednes…
Spain arrests nine accused of association with the PKK
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police arrested nine people accused of being associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
