Turkey’s Erdogan calls for new constitution to include more powerful presidency
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday renewed his call to parliament to draft a new constitution that will grant his office greater executive powers, arguing it better suits affluent nations.
Suu Kyi says Myanmar cabinet to include ethnic groups, other parties
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s new cabinet will include members of other political parties and representatives of ethnic minorities, the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday, stressing the need for national …
Morocco arrests three suspected Islamic State militants
RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan police have arrested three people suspected of belonging to a militant cell with ties to the Islamic State group, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Runway protesters cause traffic chaos at London’s Heathrow airport
LONDON (Reuters) – Activists opposed to the expansion of London’s Heathrow Airport blocked an approach tunnel on Thursday by chaining themselves to a parked vehicle, bringing traffic chaos to Europe’s busiest airport.
China’s Xi says to shake up military structure in reform push
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will shake up its military by establishing a joint operational command structure by 2020 and rejig existing military regions as part of overall reforms, President Xi Jinping said in a comments reported on Thursday.
China court upholds conviction against journalist but cuts two years off sentence
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court upheld a conviction on Thursday against a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website but reduced her jail sentence by two years in a case criticized by the West and rights…
After uproar, German town warms to refugees who took over church
OBERHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) – When Daniela Handwerk looked out of her window earlier this month and saw the church across the street being emptied out and turned into a refugee shelter, she panicked – and she was not alone.
Saudi Arabia imposes sanctions on at least 12 Hezbollah figures
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia imposed sanctions on at least 12 senior Hezbollah figures accused of responsibility for carrying out operations for the group, which it had designated a terrorist organization in March of last year, state media reported o…
Special Report: Egypt locks up lawyers in Islamist fight
CAIRO (Reuters) – (This October 22, 2015 story was refiled to correct the year of Sisi’s presidency in paragraph 10)
Operation in Syria kills person involved Beirut attacks: TV
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An operation in Syria launched by the Syrian army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah killed a person involved in the logistics of suicide bomb attacks in southern Beirut earlier this month, Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV and Syrian state media said …
