Germany offers Afghanistan help to take back migrants
KABUL (Reuters) – German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere promised Afghanistan financial help to help reintegrate returned migrants during a visit to Kabul on Monday overshadowed by the latest in a series of deadly suicide bomb attacks.
Snowden, Colombia, Greek islanders among Nobel Peace Prize tips
OSLO (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, peace negotiators in Colombia or Greek islanders helping Syrian refugees were among tips for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize at the deadline for nominations on Monday.
Israelis near Gaza fear Hamas is tunneling beneath them
PRI GAN, Israel/GAZA (Reuters) – Nissim Hakmon and his neighbors say they hear banging and clattering at night. They are convinced it can only mean one thing: Hamas is tunneling under their homes from Gaza and will one day emerge, guns blazing, to atta…
Ukraine’s Poroshenko says sanctions against Russia must remain
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday urged the West to maintain sanctions against Russia over its backing of militants in the east of the country.
Ex-IMF chief Rato faces trial over Spanish credit card use
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court said on Monday it will open a trial against former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato and dozens of other people alleged to have misused credit cards for personal expenses while at Spanish lender Bankia.
Israel hopes for EU leverage with East Mediterranean push
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel, Cyprus and Greece have agreed to deepen their energy, security and tourism ties in the Eastern Mediterranean, a deal that may have implications for Israel’s testy relationship with the European Union, too.
U.N. chief tells Israel, Palestinians: ‘writing is on the wall’
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned a stalemate in the peace process between Israel and Palestinians is reaching the point of no return for a two-state solution.
Ivory Coast ex-president presented as peace-loving victim of France
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, charged with fomenting a 2010 crisis that led to 3,000 deaths, actually tried to resolve the deadlock that plunged the country into civil war, his lawyers said on Monday.
Battle to honor slain Putin critic Nemtsov unfolds beneath Kremlin towers
MOSCOW (Reuters) – As the Kremlin clock inched toward midnight and the ice-bound river beneath their feet melted, a group of Russians silently stood on the bridge where Boris Nemtsov, the Putin critic and opposition leader, was killed nearly a year ago…
Artists and prisoners face former foes as Myanmar’s new rulers take seats
YANGON (Reuters) – Taking his seat in Myanmar’s parliament for the first time, Myo Zaw Aung, a one-time bodyguard for Aung San Suu Kyi, acknowledged the dozens of new lawmakers from her National League for Democracy (NLD) had a daunting task ahead.
