Scale of domestic abuse in England, Wales overwhelms police-report
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Many police units tackling domestic abuse in England and Wales are becoming overwhelmed by the number of cases, which is slowing and hindering some investigations, the body monitoring the police force said on Tuesd…
France uses cruise missiles against Islamic State for first time
PARIS (Reuters) – France has used cruise missiles for the first time against the Islamic State during strikes in Iraq on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said.
U.N.-sponsored Yemen peace talks start, ceasefire takes effect: U.N.
GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) – A ceasefire took hold in Yemen on Tuesday as United Nations-sponsored peace talks opened in Switzerland in a new push to end months of fighting that has killed nearly 6,000 people and dragged in foreign powers, a U.N. spokesman…
Putin signs law allowing Russia to overturn rulings of international rights courts
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia’s Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts.
Iraq says Turkey must pull out all its troops after partial withdrawal
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Turkey must pull all its forces out of a camp in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister said on Tuesday after Turkey withdrew some troops from the area.
Hague judges order retrial of Milosevic-era secret police
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Judges at a United Nations court on Tuesday ordered a retrial of two Serbian secret police officials who were acquitted two years ago of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
Germany arrests Islamist preacher on charges of recruiting militants
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German Islamist preacher was arrested in Germany on Tuesday for recruiting fighters for a militant group in Syria and purchasing and delivering military equipment, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said.
U.S., allies stage eight air strikes in Iraq, six in Syria: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State militants with a fresh round of 14 air strikes in Syria and Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
France arrests three over Islamist attacks on Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – French police arrested two men and a woman on Tuesday in connection with deadly Islamist militant attacks on Paris last month and in January, judiciary officials said.
Turkey says to take fight to Kurdish militants as violence flares
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey will take the fight to Kurdish militants in the southeast to prevent them from “spreading the fire” from neighboring Syria and Iraq into the country, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday, as violence flar…
