Germany appoints senior judge to inspect list of NSA targets
(Reuters) – Germany on Wednesday named a former senior judge as special investigator to inspect a list of targets that German intelligence tracked on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), causing a political uproar.
Libyan PM hopes for agreement with rivals on Thursday
VALLETTA (Reuters) – The internationally recognized prime minister of Libya said he hoped to reach a power-sharing peace agreement on Thursday with his rivals during U.N.-backed talks that seek to end a conflict that threatens to break up the country.
Egypt army says at least 100 militants killed in North Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s general command for the armed forces said on Wednesday the army had killed at least 100 militants in North Sinai, after the militants attacked military checkpoints in the region.
Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenager
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania’s High Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of abducting, killing and dismembering a 17-year-old albino boy.
‘Secular Jewish feminist’ Klein rallies Vatican faithful for climate action
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It wasn’t an invitation she expected, but Canadian environmentalist Naomi Klein – a self-styled secular Jewish feminist – was happy to address Vatican officials on Wednesday after Pope Francis enlisted her for a camp…
Discovery brightens solar’s future, energy costs to be cut
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scientists in Switzerland announced a clean-energy breakthrough on Wednesday; a cheaper, solar technology that splits water molecules to create clean-burning hydrogen fuel.
Ivory Coast reinforces border security after Mali attacks
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast has reinforced security along its northern frontier after recent attacks just across the border in Mali blamed on Islamist insurgents, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Italian police arrest North Africa cell and five suspected Islamic State supporters
MILAN, Italy (Reuters) – Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested two people in Rome suspected of plotting attacks in Italy and North Africa, and five others in Italy and Albania who were planning to join hardline militant group Islamic State…
Talk of Syria action may be Erdogan’s latest gambit to pressure the West
ANKARA (Reuters) – Alarmed by Syrian Kurds’ advances against Islamic State, and irked by Western reluctance to tackle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Tayyip Erdogan has once again raised the prospect of a Turkish military intervention in Sy…
Nicholas Winton, the ‘British Schindler,’ dies aged 106
LONDON (Reuters) – A man who became known as the “British Schindler” for saving hundreds of Czech children from Nazi persecution in the run-up to World War Two, has died at the age of 106.
