Dozens feared exposed as Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola case
FREETOWN (Reuters) – A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, according to an aid agency report on Friday, raising the risk of more cases just as the deadliest epidemic on record a…
French identify another Paris attacker via DNA from body parts
PARIS (Reuters) – French investigators have confirmed that Belgian-Moroccan Chakib Akrouh, who blew himself up when trapped by police on Nov. 18, was the third member of the three-man unit that killed dozens of cafe-goers during a multipronged Islamist…
U.N. reports gang-rapes, mass graves in Burundi
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations has documented cases of Burundi’s security forces gang-raping women during searches of opposition supporters’ houses and heard witness testimony of mass graves, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said on…
Chinese official expresses concern over missing Hong Kong bookseller
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong-based Chinese official expressed concern on Friday at the disappearance of one of five missing people linked to a local publisher of books critical of Beijing’s leadership but warned investigations were “complicated”.
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric urges end to militancy after Diyala attacks
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday urged the government to prevent militant attacks and condemned bombings claimed by Islamic State and retaliatory assaults this week on Sunni mosques in the provinc…
Don’t bash Commission too much, EU’s Juncker tells Renzi
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Italy is wrong to bash the European Commission, the head of the EU executive said on Friday, in an attempt to quell Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s increasing criticism of EU policies on migration, banking and the budget.
On election eve, Taiwan frontrunner says she seeks peace with China
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Taiwan presidential frontrunner Tsai Ing-wen sought to reassure she’d seek peaceful relations with China if she won Saturday’s election, as Beijing again warned the self-ruled island against any moves toward independence.
EU executive head: passport-free travel needed for jobs, single currency
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Unemployment would raise in the European Union should its passport-free travel system fall apart, the head of the bloc’s executive arm said on Friday, adding that keeping the single euro currency would also be pointless under such …
Emir of Qatar to discuss Middle East with Putin in Russia this month
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, will fly into Russia to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin on the Middle East and energy on Jan. 17-19, local news agencies quoted the Kremlin as saying on Friday.
Sacramento man indicted for lying about assisting militant group
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – One of two Iraqi-born men arrested last week on federal terrorism-related charges was indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento on Thursday for lying about traveling to Syria and assisting a militant group.
