NATO says sets date for 2016 summit in Warsaw
WARSAW (Reuters) – The NATO summit in Warsaw scheduled for 2016 will take place on July 8-9, the U.S.-led alliance said on Friday.
U.N. panel adopts new rules on treatment of prisoners
VIENNA (Reuters) – A United Nations commission on Friday adopted revised rules on the treatment of prisoners in what human rights organizations hailed as a landmark deal to update 60-year-old international standards.
Islamic State fighters press advance east of Iraqi town
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic state fighters pressed an advance east of Ramadi on Friday after breaching Iraqi defenses outside the city the insurgents overran last weekend in a major defeat for the Baghdad government.
Global refugee crises will hinder resettlement of Asian ‘boat people’: UNHCR
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Resettling asylum seekers who are among the thousands of boat people in temporary shelters in Indonesia and Malaysia will prove “extremely difficult” due to the mounting refugee crises around the world, a U.N. off…
EU to propose relocating 40,000 refugees from Italy, Greece
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission is set to propose next week that 40,000 asylum seekers who have arrived by boat in Italy and Greece should be relocated across the continent in response to what it considers an emergency situation in both co…
British bomber jailed for life for murder of U.S. sergeant in Iraq
LONDON (Reuters) – A London taxi driver, convicted of making bombs which were used against U.S. forces in Iraq, one of which killed a U.S. sergeant, was jailed for life on Friday and told he would spend at least 38 years behind bars.
Somalia’s al Shabaab fighters attack village in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Militants from Somalia-based al Shabaab attacked a village in northeast Kenya but were beaten back by security forces, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
U.S. approves sale of 10 MH-60 Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 10 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia for $1.9 billion, the first step in a major multibillion-dollar modernization of the Saudi navy’s eastern fleet.
Fresh fighting erupts in east Ukraine, three Ukrainian soldiers killed
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 12 wounded in the latest clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, further eroding a three-month-old ceasefire, Kiev’s military said on Friday.
Saudi-led coalition steps up air strikes on Houthis in Yemen’s Sanaa: residents
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes extended air strikes on Iranian-backed Houthi militia in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, residents in the area said.
