Azerbaijan says one soldier killed in fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said on Thursday one of its soldiers had been killed in fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
U.S., allies target Islamic State with 21 strikes in Iraq, Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition staged 21 strikes on Wednesday against the Islamic State militant group, according to the coalition leading the operations in Iraq and Syria.
Taliban kill top police official in Afghanistan ambush
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents ambushed and killed a police commander and seven other people, including three women, in Afghanistan on Thursday, two days after the insurgents announced the beginning of their spring offensive.
Mali’s president operated on in France for tumor
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita underwent an operation at a hospital in Paris this week as part of treatment for a benign tumor on his neck, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Cuban farmers in ‘agony’ waiting for promised reforms
ARTEMISA, Cuba (Reuters) – In Cuban farm country – between sugar cane, vegetable patches and overgrown fallow land a world away from Havana’s tourist-filled streets – producers are seething at what they say is the government’s backsliding on promised m…
U.S. announces ramped-up military presence in Philippines
MANILA (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday that U.S. troops and military equipment would be sent on regular rotations in the Philippines and that the two countries had started joint patrols in the South China Sea as China inc…
Merkel says still considering Turkish request to prosecute comedian
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday her government was still examining a request from Turkey to prosecute a German satirist who recited a sexually crude poem about Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on television.
Burundi government party official killed in tit-for-tat violence
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A official from Burundi’s ruling party was shot dead, a local administrator said on Thursday, in what appeared the latest in a spate of tit-for-tat killings that U.N. officials fear is driving the nation back into conflict.
Pakistani gang kills six policemen, takes 24 hostages
LAHORE (Reuters) – Pakistani gangsters on Thursday killed six policemen and took hostage 24 people, including police, during a raid to clear an island hideout in the south of prosperous Punjab province, authorities said.
Germany denies Paris attack suspect had papers on German nuclear research center
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s domestic intelligence agency denied on Thursday its head had told German lawmakers a prime suspect in the Paris attacks had documents about the Juelich German nuclear research center.
