Taliban infiltrate base, kill up to 15 Afghan police: officials
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban fighters disguised in police uniforms infiltrated a security forces compound in the southern Afghan province of Helmand and killed as many as 15 police, officials said on Wednesday.
‘Tel Aviv on Seine’ celebration sparks controversy in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – Paris’ decision to celebrate Tel Aviv on Thursday in its annual beach-on-the-Seine festival has sparked controversy, with critics branding it “indecent” after the death of a baby in an arson attack in the West Bank.
Heatwave in Egypt kills at least 61: health ministry
CAIRO (Reuters) – A heatwave killed at least 61 people across Egypt from Sunday to Tuesday and caused nearly 600 people to be admitted to hospital, Egypt’s health ministry said on state news agency MENA on Wednesday.
Cecil stirs world, but Africans see two sides to hunting debate
LUSAKA (Reuters) – When Zambia banned lion hunting in 2013, animal welfare groups roared in approval, but rural Zambians who face a threat from big cats and receive a slice of hunting-related revenues complained, causing the government to change its mi…
Cecil stirs world, but Africans see two sides to hunting debate
LUSAKA (Reuters) – When Zambia banned lion hunting in 2013, animal welfare groups roared in approval, but rural Zambians who face a threat from big cats and receive a slice of hunting-related revenues complained, causing the government to change its mi…
Turkey, Iran help broker rare truce in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s warring parties declared a 48-hour ceasefire in two frontline areas on Wednesday after unprecedented mediation from Turkey and Iran, signaling a new approach by some of the main regional backers of the opposing sides.
Three killed in PKK grenade attack on security outpost in southeast Turkey
DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – A Turkish soldier and two fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed when militants attacked a military outpost in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, security sources said on Wednesday.
At least 20,000 infected in southeast Congo measles outbreak: U.N.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – A measles outbreak in the copper-mining Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 315 people and infected at least 20,000, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Taliban leadership struggle fuels wave of attacks in Afghanistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A spike in attacks in Kabul was designed to prove the Taliban’s new leader was firmly in charge, the group said, but Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour’s position remains precarious as clerics and top militants meet secretly …
Turkey’s AK Party eyes early election as polls show rising support
ANKARA (Reuters) – Expectations of a snap election in November are growing within Turkey’s ruling AK Party, officials say, with its leadership emboldened by recent opinion polls and looking increasingly cool to the idea of a coalition government.
