Kurdish party thwarts Erdogan’s ambitions with Turkish election advance
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a major setback on Sunday when the ruling AK Party he founded failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election for the first time.
Bahrain says it has broken up Shi’ite group involved in terrorism
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain said on Sunday it had broken up a banned anti-government Shi’ite Muslim group behind a series of attacks and arrested several of its members.
Closed for business: Asia’s human smugglers go to ground
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – The rickety internet huts have fallen silent in the crowded camps of displaced Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar, no one comes anymore to bargain for the release of loved ones being held for ransom in Thailand and Malaysia…
Test for Pena Nieto as Mexicans vote in shadow of gang murders
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s party is expected to keep its slim working majority in the lower house of Congress in legislative elections on Sunday despite discontent about corruption, gang violence and lackluster econo…
G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at Alpine summit
KRUEN, Germany (Reuters) – Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for…
One dead after patrol boat blows up and sinks off Ukraine’s Mariupol
KIEV (Reuters) – A search operation was under way on Sunday for a border guard official missing after a patrol boat sank off Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol following an explosion, the border guard said.
Obama says stay, but some Cameron MPs prepare to back UK exit from EU
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 50 lawmakers in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party launched a campaign to back Britain’s exit from the EU unless he can get it to adopt radical reforms, even as U.S. President Barack Obama argued in favor of …
International flotilla rescues 5,900 from Mediterranean in a weekend
ROME/LONDON (Reuters) – An international rescue fleet plucked almost 5,900 migrants from rickety boats making the perilous sea crossing for North Africa to Europe on Saturday and Sunday, Italy’s coastguard said.
Luxembourg votes not to give foreigners national voting rights
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Luxemburgers have resoundingly rejected a proposal to let foreign residents vote in national elections, a move that would have been a first in Europe and could have expanded the electorate of the tiny but cosmopolitan Grand Duchy…
Britain to expand Iraq training mission to counter IS: Cameron
KRUEN, Germany (Reuters) – Britain is to expand its military training mission in Iraq in the coming weeks, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Sunday, saying the Iraqi army needed more help to deal with improvised bombs planted by Islamic State m…
