Ireland and Britain set Northern Irish crisis talks next week
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The British and Irish governments will start talks next week with Northern Ireland’s political parties to try to avert a crisis over a murder linked to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the country’s prime ministers said on Thursday.
U.S. to offer families option of leaving Turkey base, consulate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will give families of American personnel at a military base and consulate in Turkey the option of relocating now that the base has become central to the air campaign against Islamic State militants, officials sa…
U.S. sanctions Russia’s state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has imposed sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies, including Russian state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport, for violating a U.S. law restricting weapons trade with Iran, North Korea and Syria.
Immigration into Germany in 2014 at highest level for two decades
BERLIN (Reuters) – Net immigration into Germany last year hit its highest level since 1992 and the number of people claiming asylum benefits jumped by 61 percent, the Statistics Office said on Thursday, with expectations that figure will rise this year…
Double suicide bombing in north Cameroon kills 19, wounds 143
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – A double suicide bombing killed 19 people and wounded 143 on Thursday in northern Cameroon, where soldiers are battling Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria, officials said.
France says wing part found on Reunion island definitely from MH370
PARIS (Reuters) – The piece of wing found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has been formally identified as part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.
Tamil named as Sri Lankan opposition leader for first time since 1983
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament on Thursday named an ethnic minority Tamil politician as the main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years, a sign of growing reconciliation after a prolonged civil war. Most of the nation’s population…
Pakistani official to urge Afghans to stop blame for attacks
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s foreign policy chief will meet Afghan leaders on Friday in an effort to ease tensions over attacks by militants who Afghanistan says are based in Pakistan.
Putin’s China visit fails to snag major project financing
BEIJING/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China produced a clutch of new deals on Thursday, but failed to secure funding for vital infrastructure projects, underscoring the limits to a relationship Moscow casts as a counter…
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill five villagers in northern Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least five villagers in a raid in northern Nigeria’s Borno state on Wednesday before being repelled by government troops, military sources said, an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram mi…
