Russian deputies seek accountability for Armenia genocide denial
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov said on Wednesday his party had submitted a bill to parliament on holding to account anyone who denies that the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces was a “genocide”.
Iran to back Palestinians ‘in any way we can’: Khamenei
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday that Iran would support the Palestinian uprising against Israel “in any way we can”, and rejected U.S. accusations that a recent wave of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks amounted to “te…
December deal for British EU reform difficult: chief EU negotiator
DUBLIN (Reuters) – It will be difficult but not impossible for officials renegotiating Britain’s EU membership to have a framework ready for substantial discussion at next month’s European Union summit, the EU’s chief negotiator said on Wednesday.
EU sounds alarm as internal barriers rise in refugee crisis
BRUSSELS/IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive warned on Wednesday that the survival of Europe’s “partially comatose” open border travel zone and its single currency were both at risk if member nations continue erecting inter…
Italy court clears PM Renzi over expense claims when Florence mayor
ROME (Reuters) – A court in Florence has closed its investigation into expense claims filed by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi when he was mayor of the city between 2009 and 2014 and concluded there was nothing wrong with them, the mayor’s office s…
Tales of crime and struggle in Nairobi’s bustling slums
NAIROBI (Reuters) – “I have lost a lot of people I knew to crime,” says George Kiru, nursing a drink at 2 in the morning in a bar on the edge of Nairobi’s Korogocho slum.
Days before summit, Turkey, EU face big hurdles to migration deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Prospects for a grand bargain between Europe and Turkey to stem a flow of migrants into the continent are uncertain days before a summit on Sunday meant to seal a deal and put fraying relations back on a firm footing, EU and Turkis…
Brussels schools, metro reopen under tight security
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Schools and much of the Brussels metro system reopened on Wednesday as the Belgian capital started to return to normal after four days of lockdown, but troops on the street were a reminder it remains on the highest alert.
Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border, Putin warns of ‘serious consequences’
ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying the jet had violated its air space, in one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a cen…
U.N. accuses Houthis of blocking supply routes to Yemen’s Taiz city
DUBAI (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official has accused Yemen’s dominant Houthi group of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian supplies to civilians in Taiz and warned that up to 200,000 people are living under “virtual siege” in the city.
