Iran unveils second underground missile, likely to irk U.S.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran unveiled a new underground missile depot on Tuesday with state television showing Emad precision-guided missiles in store which the United States says can take a nuclear warhead and violate a 2010 U.N. Security Council resolution…
Medical charity MSF ends Mediterranean rescues, appeals to EU
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has ended its sea rescue operation aimed at reducing the number of migrants and asylum seekers killed while trying to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa to …
Germans shaken by New Year attacks on women in Cologne
BERLIN (Reuters) – About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, police said on Tuesday, in events they have described as ‘a new dimension in…
UK PM Cameron says will let ministers campaign for EU exit
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the European Union in an upcoming referendum, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
Bomb blast hits Afghan capital Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – A magnetic bomb attached to a car exploded in Kabul on Tuesday, in the latest of a series of attacks in the Afghan capital, police officials said.
‘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….
