Niger’s main opposition names Oumarou as election candidate
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s main opposition party chose Seyni Oumarou on Sunday as its candidate to contest an election in February against President Mahamadou Issoufou who is seeking a second five-year term, party officials said.
Israel suspends EU role in peace process with Palestinians
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union bodies involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians after the bloc started requiring the labeling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Mourners at funeral of Kurdish lawyer cast doubt over justice
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Mourners at the funeral on Sunday of Tahir Elci, a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist gunned down a day earlier in Turkey’s volatile southeast, said they were skeptical that those responsible for his killing would b…
Turkey recovers body of pilot from downed Russian jet
ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Turkey recovered the body of a Russian pilot from northern Syria and presented it to Russian diplomats on Sunday, five days after shooting down his warplane in an incident that wrecked relations between two of the main powers …
German police tackle mass brawl at Berlin refugee shelter
BERLIN (Reuters) – Hundreds of refugees fought each other on Sunday in a mass brawl at a Berlin shelter and more than 100 police were called in to restore order, in an episode underlining the challenges Germany faces in handling hundreds of thousands o…
Burkina Faso votes to choose first new leader in decades
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso voted on Sunday in an election to choose the country’s first new president in decades, a year after longtime leader Blaise Compaore was toppled in a popular uprising in which demonstrators faced down the security fo…
Russian air strikes kill at least 30 in stepped up raids in northwest Syria
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian jets killed at least 30 people in the town of Ariha in northwestern Syria on Sunday, rescue workers in the rebel-held area said, part of an escalation of Russian strikes …
Power ship steams into Ghana port to help end blackouts
TEMA, Ghana (Reuters) – A power-generating ship was officially welcomed at Ghana’s main port on Sunday after arriving the previous day in what Power Minister Kwabena Donkor said was a bid to keep the country on track to end chronic blackouts.
Under tightest security, pope urges peace in central Africa
BANGUI (Reuters) – Protected by the heaviest security ever seen on his trips, Pope Francis on Sunday preached reconciliation in the divided Central African Republic, a nation racked by bloodshed between Muslims and Christians.
French minister condemns social exclusion of young Muslims
PARIS (Reuters) – The social exclusion of young Muslims in France partly explains their radicalization, and the government must give people from poor suburbs more hope of success to reduce the risk of more violent attacks, a cabinet minister said on Su…
