Members of Iraq’s ruling coalition threaten to withdraw support for Abadi’s reforms
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – More than 60 members of Iraq’s ruling coalition will seek to withdraw parliamentary support for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s reforms if he does not respond within 72 hours to their demands for wider consultation, parliamentarian…
Tanzania ruling party candidate declared presidential vote winner
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s ruling party candidate, John Magufuli, won the presidential election, the National Electoral Commission announced on Thursday, after the opposition challenged the tallying process and demanded a recount.
Syrian opposition, rebels not invited to Vienna talks
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s main political opposition body and representatives of the armed opposition have not been invited to international talks on the country’s war, an opposition politician and a rebel leader said.
Four people lynched in Central African Republic’s capital: sources
BANGUI (Reuters) – Four people were killed by mobs in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on Thursday, witnesses said, in escalating religious violence that could threaten a December election.
Women’s acquittal in topless protest at Notre Dame is upheld
PARIS (Reuters) – The acquittal of eight women from the activist group Femen over a topless protest they held in Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral two years ago was upheld by a French court of appeals on Thursday.
Britain’s long-awaited Iraq inquiry to be published in June or July 2016
LONDON (Reuters) – The chairman of a British public inquiry into the Iraq War that has been running for seven years said on Thursday he expected to publish his report mid-2016, prompting Prime Minister David Cameron to urge him to speed up the process….
Africa puts security hopes in foreign-funded, home-grown strike force
LOHATLA COMBAT TRAINING BASE (Reuters) – Backed by tanks, armored vehicles and plenty of EU cash, thousands of African soldiers took on an imaginary enemy in the arid heart of South Africa this week, the last joint exercises before a homegrown continen…
Air strikes hit at least 12 hospitals in Syria in past weeks: MSF
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes in northern Syria have hit at least 12 hospitals in recent weeks, killing at least 35 patients and medical staff in a new escalation of fighting, international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Thursday.
Myanmar student leader arrested amid signs of crackdown
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar police arrested on Thursday the leader of a student movement crushed in March after he spent more than six months in hiding, a human rights monitoring group said, amid increasing signs of a crackdown on dissent ahead of a Nov…
Russian media take climate cue from skeptical Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Wildfires crackled across Siberia this summer, turning skies ochre and sending up enough smoke from burning pines to blot out satellite views of the 400-mile-long Lake Baikal.
