Afghan Taliban seize Humvees for sneak attacks and propaganda
KABUL (Reuters) – When two U.S.-made Humvees approached a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Helmand province last month, the police assumed them to be friendly local or coalition forces.
Spanish tourist arrivals rise after record summer
MADRID (Reuters) – Tourist arrivals in Spain hit a new record in the first eight months of 2015, according to an industry ministry body, with security fears in the Middle East and North Africa pushing holidaymakers, especially British and French, to se…
Hungary beefs up border with army, warns migrants to stay away
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s parliament authorized the government on Monday to deploy the army to help handle a wave of migrants, granting the military the right to use non-lethal force.
Tycoon Pugachev files $12 billion claim against Russia
PARIS (Reuters) – Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed “Putin’s banker”, has filed a claim against Russia for $12 billion after his business empire was carved up when he fell out of favor with President Vladimir Putin, his lawyers said.
Ukraine rebels offer to postpone local vote: separatist website
KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Russian rebels proposed on Tuesday postponing the date of local elections in separatist parts of east Ukraine to February 2016 in an effort to lift peacemaking out of “stalemate,” according to a statement posted on separatist websi…
Russia starts Syria drone surveillance missions: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has started flying drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria, U.S. officials said on Monday, in what appeared to be Moscow’s first military air operations there since staging a rapid buildup at a Syrian air base.
Pakistan jail officials unsure how to hang paralyzed convict
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani jail authorities postponed executing a prisoner who is in a wheelchair an hour before he was due to be hanged on Tuesday, because prison rules did not make it clear how they should proceed, his lawyers said.
Serbia threatens retaliation over Croatia truck blockade
BATROVCI, Serbia (Reuters) – Serbia threatened to retaliate after neighbor Croatia halted all cargo traffic from Serbia following an influx of migrants over their joint border.
At least 80 people killed in bomb blasts in Nigeria’s Borno state
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 80 people were killed and about 150 injured in multiple bomb attacks in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state on Sunday evening, police and witnesses said on Monday.
Burkina Faso PM Zida, held hostage since coup, freed
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s Yacouba Isaac Zida, who had been held hostage since a coup led by the West African nation’s elite presidential guard last week, was freed on Tuesday, an advisor and a senior army officer loyal to the government sa…
