Taliban insurgents active close to Kabul, threat level disputed
KHAWAJA GHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In Khawaja Ghar, a village in Deh Sabz district on the dusty outskirts of Kabul, there is little noticeable government presence, and Afghan soldiers and police are a rare sight.
Six killed in eastern Congo by suspected Ugandan rebels
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Six bodies were found with stab wounds and bullet holes in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, killed by suspected Ugandan Islamist rebels, local and military sources said on Thursday.
As Ivory Coast heads to polls, many left out of economic boom
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – At 3 a.m. on a Sunday last month Charles Kakou was awoken by the trill of whistles he had helped distribute to warn that bulldozers had arrived to demolish his seafront community in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan.
Hungary receives Austrian request to take over truck deaths case
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian prosecutors have received a request from Austria to take over the case of 71 migrants found dead in a lorry on an Austrian road in August, the Chief Prosecutor’s Office said on Thursday.
Palestinians keep up attacks in Israel as Kerry seeks to calm violence
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police said they shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another on Thursday after the two stabbed a Jewish seminary student near Jerusalem on Thursday, as diplomatic efforts to calm three weeks of violence intensified.
Food security body IPC warns of famine in South Sudan
GENEVA (Reuters) – South Sudan faces the “concrete risk” of famine by the end of 2015 and 30,000 people are already classified as being in a food security catastrophe, a statement from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said on Thu…
Russia says to build military base on contested Kurile Islands
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia plans to build a military base on the Kurile islands, a group of Pacific islands it seized from Japan at the end of World War Two, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday, according to the Interfax news agency.
Slovenia asks for EU police help to regulate migrant flow
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia has asked the European Union for police to help regulate the inflow of migrants from Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told TV Slovenia.
Philippines says handing China suspects in diplomats’ shooting
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines said on Thursday two Chinese diplomats suspected of killing two colleagues will be granted diplomatic immunity and handed over to Chinese authorities, following a bizarre restaurant shooting in the central Philippines…
U.S., allies demand U.N. council action after Iran missile test
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States, Britain, France and Germany sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee on Wednesday notifying it of Tehran’s recent missile test and demanded action in response to what …
