Israel outlaws Islamist group it sees as part of surge in violence
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel outlawed on Tuesday an Islamist group it says has played a central role in stirring up violence over a Jerusalem holy site in a wave of bloodshed that began seven weeks ago.
Northern Ireland parties agree deal to salvage power-sharing government
BELFAST (Reuters) – The leaders of Northern Ireland’s Irish nationalist and British unionist communities clinched a deal to prevent its power-sharing administration from collapsing, the British and Irish governments said on Tuesday.
Once-jailed lawmaker again uses Kurdish in Turkey’s parliament
ANKARA (Reuters) – A member of Turkey’s parliament spoke Kurdish while taking her oath of office on Tuesday, but the acting speaker said her vow was invalid.
Morocco says expels Dutch reporter over lack of accreditation
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco has expelled a Dutch reporter for working without accreditation, state media said on Tuesday.
Exclusive: Egypt detains two airport staff over Russian air crash – security sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two employees of Egypt’s Sharm al-Sheikh airport have been detained for questioning over the crash of a Russian airliner that killed all 224 people aboard, two security officials and an airport employee said on Tuesday
Brazil’s Temer not a presidential candidate for 2018
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Vice President Michel Temer said on Tuesday he is not seeking to run for president in 2018, but his PMDB party is keen to launch its own candidate and has released a pro-business economic agenda as its platform.
Ban on Israeli Islamist group raises risk of Arab minority backlash
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – In outlawing its most strident Islamist group, Israel risks angering its largely quiescent Arab citizens as it confronts a wave of Palestinian violence powered by religious and political tensions.
Putin vows payback after confirmation of Egypt plane bomb
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt and intensified air strikes against militants in Syria, after the Kremlin concluded a bomb had destroyed the plane last month,…
U.S., Turkey working to finish shutting northern Syria border: Kerry
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday the United States is starting an operation with Turkey to finish securing the northern Syrian border, an area that Islamic State militants have used as a lucrative smuggling route.
UK sets Tunisia beach attack inquest for next year or early 2017
LONDON (Reuters) – A British inquest into the deaths of 30 holidaymakers killed in June’s beach attack in Tunisia will take place late next year or early in 2017, the coroner leading the investigation said at an initial review on Tuesday.
