‘We are not natural-born enemies of Iran,’ Saudi U.N. envoy says
UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would restore ties with Iran when Tehran stopped meddling in the affairs of other countries and pledged that Riyadh would continue to work “very hard” to support bids for peace in Syria an…
New Saudi-Iran crisis threatens wider escalation
RIYADH (Reuters) – The last time Saudi Arabia broke off ties with Iran, after its embassy in Tehran was stormed by protesters in 1988, it took a swing in the regional power balance in the form of Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait to heal the rif…
Bodies of 34 migrants found on Turkish coast, at least 12 rescued
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The bodies of 34 migrants, at least seven of them children, were found at two sites along Turkey’s Aegean coast on Tuesday after they apparently tried to cross to the nearby Greek island of Lesbos.
More guards killed in Islamic State attacks on Libya’s oil ports
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Islamic State militants attacked checkpoints near the Libyan oil port of Es Sider for a second day on Tuesday and an oil storage tank in the port was set on fire by a long-range rocket, a spokesman for the security guards sa…
Turkish army kills 14 Kurdish militants, one security officer dead
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish security forces have killed at least 14 militants in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the military said on Tuesday, as an army campaign to quell fighting that has spread to the streets of cities entered a third week….
Southern Yemeni officials survive car bomb attack in Aden
ADEN (Reuters) – Three senior southern Yemeni officials survived a suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in Aden and a subsequent gun battle that killed three of their guards on Tuesday, a government spokesman and security sources said.
Spanish PM sees new elections in Catalonia as inevitable
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Tuesday that a new regional election in Catalonia was inevitable after its pro-independence bloc fractured over who would be the new government’s leader.
China says couples will not need approval to have two children
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will not require prospective parents to obtain approval to have two children under the new “two-child policy”, in what appears to be a further relaxation of reproductive controls in the world’s most populous country.
Islamic State territory shrinks in Iraq and Syria: U.S.-led coalition
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State’s territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday.
Honor press freedom vow, Britain says in case of missing Hong Kong booksellers
BEIJING (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday that it was “deeply concerned” by reports of the disappearance and possible detention of five Hong Kong booksellers specializing in publications critical of China, one of whom is British, and urged the city’s…
