Iraqi force enters southern oil city to disarm tribal fighters
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq has sent an armored army division and a police strike force into the southern oil city of Basra to disarm residents amid intensified feuding among rival Shi’ite Muslim tribes, local officials and security sources said on Fr…
Saudi-born Istanbul bomber planned New Year’s Eve attack: sources
ANKARA (Reuters) – Nabil Fadli, a Saudi-born Syrian who killed 10 German tourists in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, was planning a major attack on New Year’s Eve celebrations in Ankara but changed targets after the plot was foiled, two senior Turkish o…
German town bars asylum seekers from pool after harassment complaints
BORNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) – A western German town has barred adult male asylum seekers from its public indoor swimming pool after receiving complaints that some women were sexually harassed there.
In Myanmar’s Kachin, families uprooted by war pin hopes on new government
MYITKYINA, Myanmar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For more than six months in 2011, Ywe Ja refused to leave her village in Myanmar’s Kachin State despite heavy fighting. It was where she was born, and she had built a life there as a teacher with a farm…
Turkey detains 27 academics accused of signing ‘peace declaration’
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish security forces detained 27 academics accused of terrorist propaganda, local media said, over a declaration that criticized military action in the largely Kurdish southeast and urged an end to curfews.
Iran oil headed for India, Europe, with sanctions lifting
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – With Iran ready to resume business as usual with the world under a historic nuclear deal, Tehran will target India, Asia’s fastest-growing major oil market, and old partners in Europe with hundreds of thousands of barrels of its c…
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza stone-throwing clash
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in a stone-throwing clash near the Gaza border on Friday, a Palestinian medical official said.
Nigeria’s Buhari orders probe of 38 people, firms over arms deals
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe 38 former military chiefs, officers and companies for alleged arms procurement fraud, a presidency statement said on Friday.
Fire blocks truck access to one side of Brazil’s Santos port
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Trucks carrying commodities and other exports were unable to reach the Guaruja side of Brazil’s largest Port of Santos on Friday, a day after containers holding chemicals caught fire and sent poisonous gases into the sky.
European rights body ‘deeply concerned’ at Danish migrant rule reforms
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Europe’s human rights and democracy body said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” at proposed changes to Danish immigration laws that make it harder for migrants to stay in Denmark.
