Car explodes near high-security Saudi prison, driver killed – ministry
RIYADH (Reuters) – A car exploded at a checkpoint near Saudi Arabia’s highest security prison at sunset on Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials, the interior ministry said.
ICC judges: prosecutors must revisit 2010 Israeli flotilla raid
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court asked prosecutors to reconsider their decision not to investigate an attack by Israeli armed forces on a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
U.S. reports 31 air strikes against Islamic state in Syria and Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies carried out 31 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday, a U.S. military statement said.
Afghanistan still most perilous country for aid workers: consultancy
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Afghanistan, torn by conflict for more than three decades, kept its place as the most dangerous country for aid workers in 2014, when more than a quarter of all attacks on aid staff took place there, the consulting…
Brazil House speaker weighs possibility of Rousseff impeachment
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress said on Thursday he is weighing legal arguments to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, which would be the first ouster of a sitting president in the country in nearly 23 years.
U.N. conference agrees on plan to finance development goals
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – More than 100 countries have agreed on a framework to bankroll an array of ambitious development goals, ranging from tackling poverty to dealing with climate change by 2030.
As Syrian Kurds advance against Islamic State, other ethnic groups flee
AKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) – Cemal Dede fled his home in a remote Turkmen village in Syria after warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State bombed the house next door. He had no idea he wouldn’t be coming back.
French cave engravings reveal last thoughts of WW1 soldiers
BOUZINCOURT, France (Reuters) – Neglected for decades, underground caves in a small village in France’s Somme valley contain a treasure trove of hundreds of engravings by World War One Canadian and British soldiers as they sought refuge from German ass…
Islamic State says it launched rocket attack on Egypt navy vessel
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate said on Thursday it fired a rocket at an Egyptian naval vessel in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Security police kill four militants in operation in Kyrgyz capital
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan’s security police said they had killed four members of an “international terrorist organization” in a firefight near the center of the capital Bishkek on Thursday, underscoring continued volatility in the hard-up Central …
