Air strike kills Yemeni judge and family: residents
CAIRO (Reuters) – A Saudi-led coalition air strike killed a Yemeni judge and seven members of his family in the capital Sanaa on Sunday, residents said, as an aid convoy delivered food to a besieged southern city for the first time in months.
Syria’s U.S.-backed rebel alliance expanding landing field for non-combat goals: spokesman
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters is expanding the landing field of an agricultural airport in eastern Syria with the purpose of using it to receive humanitarian aid in the future, a spokesman said on Monday….
Two Palestinians shot dead after stabbing two Israelis in West Bank: police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Two Palestinians were shot dead after stabbing two Israeli women on Monday in the West Bank, police said, in an emerging pattern of assaults inside Jewish settlements in the occupied territory.
Mock ‘Brexit’ talks paint bleak picture for Britain outside EU
LONDON (Reuters) – London could not remain Europe’s financial center if Britain left the European Union at an upcoming referendum, top European politicians said on Monday, warning that reaching a free trade agreement with Britain would not be the bloc’…
Suicide bomb attack kills 28, wounds dozens in Cameroon
DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Suicide bombers targeting a town in northern Cameroon killed 28 people and wounded 65 on Monday, one of the worst attacks yet in the Central African nation as it struggles to contain an overflow of violence blamed on Nigeri…
Former Maldives’ president calls for sanctions against government figures
LONDON (Reuters) – Former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed, freed from jail last week to seek medical care in Britain, called on Monday for sanctions against Maldivian government figures as his lawyer warned a militant attack on tourists was h…
Greek political leaders to clash over pension cutback plan on Tuesday
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece launches debate on a contentious pension reform plan in parliament on Tuesday, the opening salvo of what may be the toughest test yet of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s staying power at the helm of Europe’s most indebted natio…
EU states seek extension of border controls within Schengen
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – European Union countries have asked the bloc’s executive to prepare for the extension of temporary border controls within the Schengen free-travel zone for up to two years, Dutch Migration Minister Klaas Dijkhoff said on Monday.
Hero of Egypt’s uprising still hopes for change despite return of repression
CAIRO (Reuters) – In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those sam…
Rwandan police kill suspected Islamic State recruiter
KIGALI (Reuters) – A Rwandan man who had been accused of recruiting for the Islamic State was shot and killed in the capital Kigali while attempting to escape police custody, police said in a statement on Monday.
