Turkey says to keep doors open for Uighur ‘brothers’, irking China
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey vowed on Friday to keep its doors open to ethnic Uighur migrants fleeing persecution in China, a stance likely to exacerbate Ankara’s row with Beijing over its treatment of the largely Muslim, Turkic-language speaking minority…
Britain falls silent to remember 30 killed in Tunisian gun attack
LONDON (Reuters) – Millions of people across Britain held a minute’s silence on Friday on an official day of mourning to pay tribute to 30 Britons killed a week ago by an Islamist gunman in Tunisia, the country’s worst loss of life in a militant attack…
U.S. Treasury guarantees bond issue by Jordan, rare form of aid
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The U.S. Treasury, at the behest of the U.S. State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), guaranteed $1.5 billion worth of bonds issued by Jordan earlier this week.
Ecuador, first stop on Pope tour, highlights environment exhortation
QUITO (Reuters) – It is one of the most biodiverse nations on earth, boasting the Amazon rainforest, Andean mountains and the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution.
Turkey reinforces Syria border, PM says no incursion planned
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has deployed additional troops and equipment along part of its border with Syria as fighting north of the city of Aleppo intensifies, security sources said, but Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there were no immediate plans…
Vietnam Communist Party chief to meet Obama on landmark U.S. trip
HANOI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vietnam’s Communist Party chief will visit the United States next week in a landmark trip that could prove pivotal in Washington’s bid to bolster its Asian alliances in the back yard of an increasingly assertive China.
Israel accuses Hamas of aiding Islamic State in Egypt
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli general has accused members of Hamas in Gaza of providing support to militants linked to Islamic State in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, where the Egyptian army has fought deadly battles with Islamist insurgents in recent day…
Dutch seek U.N. tribunal to prosecute downing of Malaysian plane
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The Dutch government is lobbying its political allies for the establishment of a U.N. tribunal to prosecute suspects in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine a y…
A week after Kuwait bombing, Sunnis and Shi’ites pray together for unity
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Hundreds of Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims prayed for national unity at Kuwait’s grand mosque on Friday, vowing to block any attempt to stir sectarian division a week after an Islamic State staged the country’s deadliest militant attack.
Malian refugees in Mauritania face food shortage as funds scarce
DAKAR (Reuters) – Thousands of Malian refugees are facing food shortages in Mauritania because of a delayed rations shipment and a shortage of funding, as donors juggle several global crises, an official from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on…
