Indian ruling party official urges Muslims to give up eating beef
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The head of an Indian state belonging to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has urged the country’s minority Muslims to stop eating beef out of respect for the sentiments of Hindus, a call that could further inflame socia…
Sisi walks fine line between Egypt’s tycoons and generals
CAIRO (Reuters) – When Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed the unpopular Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, billionaire Naguib Sawiris promised to invest in his country like never before. Two years on he has no desire to …
Hezbollah attack kills five ‘Islamic State’ fighters in north Lebanon: source
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired rockets and mortars at what it said were Islamic State fighters in the north of the country on Friday, killing five of them, a security source said.
Kurdish militants shoot dead Turkish police officer
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish fighters shot dead a Turkish police officer and wounded another in a southeast town on Friday, officials said, as clashes raged on despite a unilateral ceasefire announced days earlier by the militant Kurdistan Wo…
Turkey shoots down drone near Syria, U.S. suspects Russian origin
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes shot down an unidentified drone in Turkish air space near Syria on Friday and a U.S. official said Washington believed it was of Russian origin.
Calais migrant camp doubled to 6,000 people: French official
ARRAS, France (Reuters) – The number of migrants in the Calais camp on France’s north coast has doubled to close to 6,000 people, the prefect for the region said on Friday.
U.N. deplores death of Afghan shot trying to enter Bulgaria
SOFIA (Reuters) – An Afghan asylum seeker was fatally wounded by Bulgarian border police when a warning shot ricocheted, Bulgarian officials said on Friday, in what the United Nations said was the first incident of its kind in the current migration cri…
Absent powerbrokers pull strings in Polish election campaign
WARSAW (Reuters) – In a televised debate in Poland in 2007, center-right leader Donald Tusk accused election rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski of once pulling a gun on him in a lift.
One of us: the militant Egypt’s army fears most
CAIRO, (Reuters) – As a special forces officer in the Egyptian Army, Hisham al-Ashmawy trained in the desert, learning camouflage and survival techniques and how to hunt the enemy in rough terrain. Now he has turned militant, and uses that training to another purpose: helping fellow jihadists fight Egypt’s government.
Indonesian battle over Freeport threatens to mar leader’s U.S. trip
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian ministers are battling over control of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan’s future in the country, threatening to mar the president’s first trip to the United States later this month.
