Egypt’s Sisi swears in new government, keeps ministers in key posts
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence.
Israeli aircraft strike Gaza after rocket fire
GAZA (Reuters) – Israel carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian militants there fired rockets into southern Israel.
Refugee journey: A tough welcome in Germany
Reuters photographer Zohra Bensemra is following a group of families fleeing the war in Syria and seeking a new life in Europe. This report comes from Rosenheim, in southern Germany.
Croatia says ‘forcing’ Hungary to take in migrants
BELI MANASTIR, Croatia/BEREMEND, Hungary (Reuters) – Croatia said on Saturday it had “forced” Hungary to take in thousands of migrants and would continue sending them to its northern neighbor, amid deepening discord and disarray in Europe over the biggest westwards migration in decades.
Putin gives go-ahead to Belarus airbase plan
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed the establishment of an airbase in neighboring Belarus, the latest move by Moscow to project its military power abroad.
Head of U.N. nuclear agency to visit Iran
VIENNA (Reuters) – The director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, which is investigating whether Iran carried out work aimed at developing an atom bomb, will travel to Iran this weekend, the agency said on Saturday.
Portugal pre-election poll puts ruling alliance ahead, many undecided
LISBON (Reuters) – A new opinion poll has put Portugal’s ruling coalition well ahead of the opposition Socialists in the race for an Oct. 4 general election though falling short of a parliamentary majority and with one in three voters still undecided.
Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant camps in Iraq, at least 55 killed: sources
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday, as Ankara shows no sign of easing up strikes on insurgents ah…
Haiti border crisis grows as Dominican Republic expels ‘migrants’
ANSE-à-PITRE, Haiti (Reuters) – Every morning, Gustavo Adolfo wakes up in a migrant shelter in Haiti, treks across a field of burnt brush where men make charcoal, and crosses a river into the Dominican Republic, a country he left in fear three months ago.
Insurgents killed 56 government troops at captured air base: Syria monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A group tracking the Syrian war said on Saturday that Islamist insurgents shot dead 56 members of Syrian government forces in a mass execution at an air base captured from the army earlier this month in northwestern Syria.
