Russia approves detailed sanctions against Turkey over downed plane
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a raft of sanctions against Turkey in retaliation for the downing of a Russian warplane, but the measures stuck largely to what Moscow had previously threatened and had several notable …
Yemeni PM rejects cabinet reshuffle ordered by president: government source
DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah rejected a cabinet reshuffle ordered on Tuesday by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi as “illegitimate”, a senior government official said.
Obama: climate change an economic, security imperative
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world needs an enduring framework for addressing climate change and that he would seek an agreement that would boost economies as well as help the planet’s environment.
Police check van parked outside Bulgaria’s main airport
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian police were checking bags found in a van parked outside the capital’s main airport on Tuesday, but officials there said they had not found any explosives so far, correcting an earlier statement.
Iraqi Kurdistan minister says no link between oil sales and Islamic State
LONDON (Reuters) – The Iraqi Kurdish minister for natural resources said on Tuesday reports that the regional government was helping smuggle oil from fields controlled by Islamic State militants were “wild imagination and unsubstantiated”.
Bosnia activists hope EU bid will help end anti-gay violence, discrimination
SARAJEVO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ivan has not told his parents, or many friends, that he’s gay.
UK bombing of Syria to cost ‘in the low tens of millions of pounds’: Osborne
LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister George Osborne said on Tuesday that the cost of extending air strikes against Islamic State into Syria would run in the “low tens of millions of pounds”.
In Erdogan’s Turkey, dissent may be bad for business
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The head of one of Turkey’s biggest retailers, once consigned by Tayyip Erdogan to the ranks of “riff-raff”, might be forgiven for having sensed the hand of the president recently when Istanbul Stock exchange raised alarm with a te…
Small steps for women’s rights and democracy in Saudi poll
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian women are running for election and voting for the first time on Dec. 12, but their enfranchisement marks only a pigeon step towards democracy and gender equality in the autocratic Islamic kingdom.
Boko Haram militants kill four, wound two in Niger attack
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram killed eight people in an attack on a village in the southeast of Niger, a private local radio station, ANFANI, said on Tuesday.
