Colombia’s FARC rebels suspend unilateral ceasefire
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels suspended a unilateral ceasefire after government troops killed 26 of its fighters, the guerrilla group said on Friday, a move that will likely ratchet up tension at peace talks to end five decades of w…
In Spain, grassroots movements revive interest in politics
MADRID (Reuters) – In an apartment block in central Madrid, homeowners and tenants in danger of being evicted gather every Thursday to plan awareness campaigns and get free advice from lawyers.
U.S., allies conduct 20 air strikes against Islamic State militants: military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq since Thursday, concentrating on targets near Ramadi, the city that recently fell to the insurgents, the U.S. military said on Friday.
Hundreds march in Sudan against Mursi death sentence
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Around 800 protesters marched through Sudan’s capital on Friday against a court’s decision this week to seek the death penalty for Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi.
Two killed in grenade attack in Burundi capital
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Two people were killed when three grenades went off in a market in the Burundi capital on Friday, a Reuters witness said.
EU, ex-Soviet neighbors patch over rifts with eye on Russia
RIGA (Reuters) – Looking over their shoulders at Russia, the European Union and six former Soviet neighbors patched up their differences to renew vows of cooperation in the interests of peace and security at a summit on Friday.
Accused arms smuggler left Tunisia for Italy before museum attack: official
TUNIS/MILAN (Reuters) – A Moroccan man supplied arms for a March attack on Tunisia’s Bardo Museum and then boarded a migrant boat for Italy, where he is now held, a Tunisian government official said on Friday.
Islamic State expands its ‘state’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Almost a year after Islamic State’s shock capture of Mosul, Iraq’s second city, the black flags of the jihadis have been raised over Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province to the west of Baghdad, seat of Iraq’s increasingly theoretical central government.
Myanmar’s Rakhine State denies persecution at root of migrant crisis
SITTWE, Myanmar/YANGON (Reuters) – The head of the Myanmar state from which thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing denied that persecution had prompted the exodus after the United States called on the country to deal with its root causes.
Netherlands plans to ban full-face veil in public places
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday agreed to introduce a partial ban on the wearing of the full-face veil in public places, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
