Charlie Hebdo cartoon featuring drowned Syrian boy causes outcry
PARIS (Reuters) – A drawing in French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo suggesting Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach last year, would have grown up to be a sex attacker caused outrage online on Thursday.
U.S. sends 10 Yemeni Guantanamo detainees to Oman
MIAMI/MUSCAT (Reuters) – Ten Yemeni men held at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military prison were sent to Oman on Thursday, bringing the detainee population below the symbolically important milestone of 100 as President Barack Obama steps up efforts to clos…
U.S., Mexico open talks on extradition of drug kingpin Guzman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has begun talks with Mexican authorities about extraditing drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Philippines urges patrols with U.S. amid sea dispute with China
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines has asked the United States to hold joint naval patrols, a defense ministry spokesman said on Thursday, amid a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.
Senior Qaeda-linked figure captured in Lebanon: security forces
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese security forces said on Thursday they had arrested a senior member of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that has carried out attacks in the country.
Amanda Knox acquitted of slander charges against Italian police
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian court acquitted American Amanda Knox of slander charges brought after she said police coerced her to name the person who murdered her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, according to her Italian lawyer.
Pentagon: U.S. sailors made ‘navigational error’ into Iranian waters
MIAMI (Reuters) – The 10 U.S. sailors who were held by Iran before being released on Wednesday made a navigational mistake that led them into Iranian waters but did not communicate that to Navy commanders before being intercepted, the U.S. military sai…
Despite urgency, Taliban yet to decide to join talks: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Taliban in Afghanistan have yet to decide to join renewed peace efforts despite an urgent need to get talks going before the spring fighting season begins in April, a senior U.S. administration official said on Thursday.
Nigeria launches new investigation of 2014 kidnap of Chibok girls
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a new investigation into the kidnapping of 219 schoolgirls by Islamist group Boko Haram in April 2014 from the town of Chibok, the presidency said on Thursday.
Macedonian PM to submit resignation Friday in preparation for election
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said he would submit his resignation on Friday under a European Union-brokered deal for an early parliamentary election to defuse months of political crisis.
