Brazil to hire doctors, nurses to help in Rio health crisis
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s health ministry promised on Thursday to hire nearly 2,500 medical staff in the state of Rio de Janeiro as it scrambles to help local authorities deal with a funding crisis that has left hospitals under-staffed and il…
Republicans seek more naval resources amid South China Sea dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tension over the South China Sea highlights the need for the United States to maintain a strong Navy to serve as a deterrent, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday, criticizing the Obama administration for proposals he sa…
Israeli soldiers shoot dead four Palestinian attackers in West Bank: army
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli security forces on Thursday shot dead four Palestinians who launched two separate stabbing attacks in the occupied West Bank, the military said, as a surge in street violence entered its fourth month.
Truck bomb kills nearly 50 at Libyan police academy
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – At least 47 people were killed on Thursday when Libya’s worst bomb attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi hit a police training center as hundreds of recruits gathered for a morning meeting.
Heaviest air strikes yet rock Yemeni capital Sanaa: residents
CAIRO (Reuters) – Dozens of air strikes hit the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, in what residents described as the heaviest aerial attacks yet in nine months of war, days after a Saudi-led coalition trying to restore a Saudi-backed government ended a…
Spain’s Socialist leader rules out pact with ruling PP
MADRID (Reuters) – The leader of Spain’s opposition Socialist party, Pedro Sanchez, ruled out a pact with the ruling People’s Party during a visit to Portugal on Thursday to study its leftist coalition government’s success in booting out a right-wing l…
Paris police kill man armed with meat cleaver on Charlie Hebdo anniversary
PARIS (Reuters) – French police shot dead a man wielding a meat cleaver after he tried to enter a police station on Thursday, the anniversary of militant attacks in Paris, shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is Greatest) and wearing what turned out to be a fa…
Prosecutors say no information Istanbul airport attack caused by mortar fire
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish prosecutors denied on Thursday a media report that they had concluded an attack on Istanbul’s second airport last month that killed an aircraft cleaner was caused by mortar fire.
U.S. imposes sanctions on Lebanese man, company for Hezbollah links
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Lebanese financier Ali Youssef Charara and his telecommunications company, saying they supported the militant group Hezbollah.
French financial prosecutor opens inquiry into Le Pen’s wealth
PARIS (Reuters) – The French financial prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday it had launched a preliminary investigation into far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie Le Pen on suspicions that they misrepresented their wealth.
