Netanyahu wants U.S. release of Israeli spy Pollard kept low-key
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli officials to keep low-key about Friday’s scheduled release by the United States of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, a cabinet minister said.
Italy and Sweden act against threat of militant attacks
ROME/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Police in Italy and Sweden hunted suspected militants and increased security around public buildings on Thursday after receiving reports that attacks might be planned on their soil following last week’s mass killings in Paris…
U.S. prosecutors in talks with finance director in U.N. bribe case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have disclosed that they are in talks that could lead to a plea deal with a New York-based foundation’s finance director who was accused of participating in a scheme to bribe a former United Nations General Assembl…
U.N. panel accuses Iran of cracking down on freedom of expression
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee on Thursday criticized Iran for cracking down on activists, journalists and dissidents and its increased use of the death penalty, a rebuke Tehran dismissed as “Iranophobia.”…
Syrians held in Honduras traveled through several countries on forged passports
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Five Syrian men detained in Honduras carrying forged Greek passports traveled through multiple countries before they were stopped, officials said, raising questions about how they were able to move through border controls with s…
Exclusive: EU’s Juncker dangles trade ties with Russia-led bloc to Putin
VILNIUS (Reuters) – European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, suggesting closer trade ties between the EU and a Russian-led economic bloc once a ceasefire is implemented in Ukraine, but the Kreml…
Syria peace deal elusive as ever in wake of Islamic State attacks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in spectacular attacks claimed by Islamic State militants from Syria, but diplomats say major powers are no closer to a peace deal to end nearly five years of bloodshed and chaos t…
U.N. says Congo failed to properly vet Central African Republic troops
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday it is in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about the country’s future involvement in a peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic because it had not adequately vetted its tr…
U.N. panel condemns North Korea abuses, Pyongyang cites U.S. ‘plot’
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday condemned what it said were rampant and planned human rights abuses in North Korea, but Pyongyang denounced the accusation as a hostile plot organized by the United Stat…
Kuwait says group supplying funds and weapons to IS has been caught: KUNA
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwaiti authorities have arrested an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State, state news agency KUNA quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Thursday.
