Germany approves arms exports to Saudi Arabia and Oman: ministry letter
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has approved several arms export deals with countries in the Middle East, including delivery of 23 Airbus helicopters to Saudi Arabia, according to an Economy Ministry letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
Don’t mention the ‘s’ word: EU tries to hold firm on Russia sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Supporters of the European Union’s economic sanctions against Russia insisted on Monday they were still needed for the bloc’s security amid signs of fraying unity in the 28-nation bloc over how to deal with Moscow.
Bangladesh arrests Islamist militants over bomb plot, seizes explosives
DHAKA (Reuters) – Officials of Bangladesh’s anti-terrorism unit on Monday detained five suspected members of a banned Islamist militant group for planning attacks during celebrations of the Bengali New Year next month, a spokesman said.
Israeli professor seeks ‘internal boycott’ of settlement college
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli professor urged fellow academics on Monday to shun a Jewish settlement college in the occupied West Bank, a move that could effectively import an international pro-Palestinian boycott movement.
U.S. stages 15 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria -statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with 15 strikes on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on its latest round of daily attacks on the militant group.
Three Palestinians attack Israelis in West Bank, shot dead: army
KIRYAT ARBA, West Bank (Reuters) – Three Palestinians carried out back-to-back gun and car-ramming attacks on Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday and were shot dead by the army, it said.
Three migrants drown trying to cross river to Macedonia: police
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Three migrants drowned while trying to cross a river close to the Greece-Macedonia border that had been swelled by heavy rain, police in Macedonia said on Monday.The bodies of two men and a woman were found in the river early on Mond…
Russia ready to cooperate with U.S.-led coalition in fight for Syria’s Raqqa: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to coordinate its actions with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria to push the Islamic State group out of Raqqa, Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.
Syrian war creates child refugees and child soldiers: report
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, U.N. children’s fund UNICEF said on Monday.
Kremlin spokesman calls Polish comments on Smolensk crash ‘groundless’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday described as groundless and unobjective an assertion by Poland’s defense minister that foul play was behind a 2010 plane crash that killed the then Polish president.
