Exclusive: U.S. has urged legal reforms abroad to block Islamic State recruits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has provided specific suggestions to governments in Europe and elsewhere on how to strengthen counterterrorism laws in order to arrest would-be foreign fighters before they join groups like Islamic Sta…
Canada refugee airlift hampered by exit visa requirement: minister
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s plan to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees in the next three months is being hampered by the requirements in their host countries to get exit visas, Citizenship Minister John McCallum told Reuters on Wednesday.
Argentine president-elect taps ex-central banker as finance minister
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri named former JP Morgan executive and central bank chief Alfonso Prat-Gay his finance minister on Wednesday in a sign that he will move quickly to restore the bank’s autonomy and free up …
Obama congratulates Argentine President-elect Macri: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated President-elect Mauricio Macri of Argentina on his election in a phone call on Wednesday, the White House said in a statement.
U.S. using sex, money to infiltrate Iran, supreme leader says
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States is using sex, money and Western lifestyles to infiltrate Iran’s decision-making elite, the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday.
Tunisia says suicide bomber carried out bus attack claimed by Islamic State
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian authorities said on Wednesday a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with plastic explosive blew up a presidential guard bus a day earlier, killing at least 12 troops in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.
Conflict, crisis give West Africa chance to rebuild, improve education
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world’s worst recorded Ebola outbreak and militant violence in West Africa may have shut down schools across the region but governments should see conflict and crisis as an opportunity to reform and improve educ…
Court rules Norway aid agency ‘grossly negligent’ over Kenya kidnap
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A court in Oslo ruled on Wednesday that the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) was guilty of gross negligence and should pay 4.4 million crowns ($507,000) in damages to a former employee who was abducted by gunmen fro…
Russia’s past and present collide at ceremony to honor former leader
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday inaugurated a museum dedicated to Boris Yeltsin, the former president whose legacy, many former Yeltsin associates say, Putin has spent the past 15 years dismantling.
Sarkozy battles far-right in French regional vote
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy rallied conservatives in eastern France on Wednesday, hoping to fend off a strong challenge by the far-right National Front (FN) in looming regional elections.
