Pakistan denies involvement in deadly 2009 attack on CIA base
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan on Friday dismissed as preposterous reports that its intelligence agency helped fund a 2009 suicide bombing on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan that was one of the deadliest attacks in the U.S. spy agency’s history.
Giant prison for Afghan militants aims to avoid pitfalls of past
PARWAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A sprawling U.S.-built complex in Parwan province, northwest of Kabul, acts as jail, hospital and courtroom for thousands of combatants captured on battlefields across Afghanistan.
OSCE warns of intensified fighting in Ukraine’s separatist east
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government troops has increased sharply in eastern Ukraine in defiance of calls to observe a year-old peace agreement, the head of an international monitoring mission said on Frida…
Syrian rebel factions still back peace talks but warn over shaky truce
GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebel commanders in Syria said on Friday they still backed U.N.-mediated peace talks but accused the Damascus government of trying to shatter a ceasefire deal and urged world powers to judge whether it remained viable.
Russia’s Lavrov and Kerry discuss Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the Syria crisis settlement in a phone talk on Friday, Russia’s ministry said in a statement.
Brazil Congress debates impeachment, government brands it a ‘violent act’
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s attorney general warned Congress on Friday that impeaching President Dilma Rousseff would mark an unprecedented break with democracy as legislators opened a three-day debate in the lower house on whether to recommend she b…
Migrant influx into Italy from Libya resurging: IOM
GENEVA (Reuters) – Almost 6,000 migrants and refugees have sailed from Libya to Italy in the past three days in what appears the start of a wave of at least 100,000 and “possibly many, many more” this year, the International Organization for Migration …
‘In’ leads ‘out’ by a whisker in latest Brexit poll from YouGov
LONDON (Reuters) – The “In” camp holds a one-point lead ahead of Britain’s June 23 referendum on whether the country should remain in the European Union, according to an online opinion poll by YouGov.
Merkel criticised for allowing prosecution of comedian who mocked Erdogan
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Angela Merkel agreed on Friday to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who read out a crude poem about Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, prompting criticism that the chancellor had failed to protect…
EU preparing to deploy security mission in Libya, if requested: draft
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is signaling that it will consider moving security personnel into Libya to help stabilize the chaotic country if requested by a new U.N.-backed Libyan government, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters.
