Egypt’s Sisi tells interior minister to crack down on abuses by police
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the interior minister on Friday to crack down on police abuse and to submit proposals to parliament to achieve this goal, the presidency said, as anger mounts over alleged police brutality….
Afghan teen charged with raping worker at Belgian asylum center
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A teenage Afghan immigrant has been charged with raping a female worker at an asylum seekers’ center in Belgium, authorities said, prompting outrage from anti-immigrant politicians.
Caviar, champagne at Harrods: Some Mexican anti-graft busters live large
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A dinner of champagne, caviar and smoked salmon at up-market department store Harrods was how Hilda Garcia, a Mexican anti-corruption official, spent part of her $450 per day travel allowance in London last year.
German government accuses Russian media of biased reporting
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government on Friday accused Russia media of “biased reporting” on events such as the Ukraine crisis, reports on Russia’s neighboring states and an alleged rape case involving a German-Russian girl.
Tear gas protest keeps gag on Kosovo parliament
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo opposition lawmakers released tear gas in parliament on Friday, forcing the abandonment of this year’s first legislative session as part of a long-running protest against a deal to grant the country’s ethnic Serb minority mo…
Egypt says it will not protect policemen who break the law as tensions mount
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Friday that any policeman who violates the law will be prosecuted, one day after an officer shot dead a man in the street, provoking the latest outburst of anger over alleged police brutality in the c…
Swiss investigating alleged secret 1970 PLO deal
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland is looking into whether a former government minister struck a secret deal offering diplomatic assistance to the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1970 in exchange for the Arab group stopping attacks on Swiss targets.
Three Turkish soldiers killed as building collapses in southeast Turkey
ANKARA (Reuters) – Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were lightly injured after a building collapsed in the southeast, where security forces have been clashing with Kurdish militants for months.
Sudanese flee militiamen they say are razing villages in Darfur
AL-FASHIR, Sudan (Reuters) – When gunmen poured out of 40 trucks and opened fire “indiscriminately” in his village in Western Sudan, local farmer Adam Ishaq ran for his life, joining some 73,000 civilians forced from their homes in the Darfur region si…
Greece may block EU summit conclusions, complicating Brexit, migrant talks
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has threatened not to sign off on the final conclusions of an EU summit on migration and Britain’s membership, holding out for assurances EU states will not shut borders over the migrant crisis, government officials said on Fr…
