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.
India’s top court scuttles Modi’s judicial reform move
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top court on Friday struck down a law giving Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government a bigger say in the appointment of top judges, calling the new system harmful to judicial independence in the world’s largest democracy…
Serbian leader compares EU demands to Habsburg ultimatum on eve of WWI
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s president has compared European Union demands of the country in exchange for membership of the bloc to an ultimatum the Austro-Hungarian empire presented to Belgrade on the eve of World War One.
Merkel welcomes Obama plan to slow Afghanistan troop withdrawal
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel strongly welcomes President Barack Obama’s plans to prolong the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan, her spokesman said.
