Pakistan says cannot kill Taliban while inviting them to peace talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday he had told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Pakistan was prepared to help revive stalled Afghan peace talks but could not bring the Taliban to the negotiating table “and be …
Venezuela sues black market currency website in United States
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Central Bank filed a lawsuit on Friday with allegations of “cyber-terrorism” against a U.S.-based website that tracks the OPEC member’s currency black market.
Engine alert forces Ethiopian 787 Dreamliner back to Dublin
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Technical experts were trying to discover the cause of an engine problem on an Ethiopian Airlines jet stranded in Dublin after being forced to turn back over the Atlantic on Friday.
Kurds say joint raid with U.S. in Iraq aimed to free their fighters
ERBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. and Kurdish special forces who raided a compound in northern Iraq were acting on intelligence that Kurdish fighters were being imprisoned there by Islamic State, a source in the Kurdistan Region Security Council said on F…
Pentagon chief expects more raids similar to Iraq rescue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed military operation that freed 70 hostages who had been held by Islamic State in Iraq produced a cache of intelligence, and U.S. forces supporting Iraqi troops are likely to undertake more raids in the future, U.S. D…
Turkish court sentences 244 to jail over 2013 protests: newspaper
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court on Friday sentenced 244 people to up to 14 months in jail over protests in 2013 that began as a bid to stop the redevelopment of an Istanbul park and spiraled into the worst political unrest for years, a major newsp…
Peru probes possible sex abuse by founder of Catholic society
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general has launched an investigation to determine whether the founder and former head of an elite Catholic society sexually and physically abused children and former members of the secretive group.
Islamic State attacks Syrian army supply route to Aleppo: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters took control of a section of road southeast of Aleppo on Friday, threatening the Syrian army’s only supply route into the city, a group that monitors the civil war said.
Witness in U.S. terror trial of London cleric spared prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former follower of radical London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri avoided prison on Friday after providing what a U.S. prosecutor said was over a decade of “unprecedented” cooperation in terrorism investigations that led to the convictio…
Rockets kill six at protest in Libya’s Benghazi against U.N. deal
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – At least six people were killed and dozens more injured in Libya’s second city Benghazi on Friday when rockets hit a protest against a U.N. proposal for a unity government to end a political crisis, medical sources said.
