Netanyahu clinches deal to form new Israeli government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinched a deal to form a new government on Wednesday just before a deadline expired, but his coalition will rule by the slimmest of majorities in Israel’s turbulent parliament.
United Kingdom votes in most unpredictable election in decades
LONDON (Reuters) – British voters get to decide on Thursday who they want to rule the world’s fifth-largest economy in a tight election that could yield weak government, propel the United Kingdom towards a vote on EU membership and stoke Scottish desir…
Nigerians fleeing Lake Chad in Niger say some have died from lack of food, water
GEIDAM, Nigeria/NIAMEY, Niger (Reuters) – Some of thousands of Nigerians told to leave neighboring Niger in the past week due to threats from Boko Haram militants have died en route from lack of food and water, evacuees said.
Maldives minister says jailed ex-president can appeal, won’t get pardon
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Maldives would welcome an appeal by its jailed former president against his 13-year sentence, but he was found guilty of terrorism and cannot expect to be pardoned, Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon told Reuters on Wednesday.
British rivals still tied in last hours of election campaign
LONDON (Reuters) – A late burst of opinion polls on Wednesday suggested that Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour challenger Ed Miliband had fought each other to a standstill on the eve of Britain’s most unpredictable election in a gene…
Yemen urges ground intervention to save country: letter to U.N
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Yemen urged the international community “to quickly intervene by land forces to save” the country, specifically in the cities of Aden and Taiz, according to a letter sent to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.
Rescuers step up hunt for bodies in quake-hit Nepal trekking village
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepalese soldiers and villagers dug through snow mounds in a remote hamlet on Wednesday in search of scores of bodies of villagers and trekkers believed to be buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake, …
Over 120 die in Yemen as Houthis take key Aden district
ADEN/CAIRO (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi militia battled its way into Aden’s Tawahi district on Wednesday despite Saudi-led air strikes, strengthening its hold on the city whose fate is seen as crucial to determining the country’s civil war.
Erdogan, Turkish Cypriot leader urge Greek Cypriots to step up peace efforts
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and the newly elected north Cypriot leader said on Wednesday that renewed peace talks between Cyprus’s estranged Turkish and Greek communities could lead to a solution this year if the Greek side show…
Germanwings pilot rehearsed crash on outbound flight
PARIS (Reuters) – The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the French Alps rehearsed the fatal maneuver on the morning of the disaster, and had twice been refused medical papers needed to fly, investigators said on Wednesday…
