Bahrain says seizes explosives meant for use in Saudi Arabia
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain said on Thursday it had seized explosives and bomb-making materials earmarked for use in Bahrain and neighboring Saudi Arabia in what it described as an Iranian attempt to use Bahraini borders as a base for attacking targets i…
Iraq denies Islamic State claim it shot down fighter plane
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s defense ministry and the U.S. military dismissed a claim by Islamic State on Thursday that it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane.
Pakistan arrests two men over London murder of dissident politician
KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities said they arrested two men on Thursday in connection with the murder of a dissident Pakistani politician in London five years ago.
Cold War echo as Hungary plans wall to keep out desperate migrants
DEMIR KAPIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) – If anyone has benefited from Syria’s internecine war it’s the men selling bikes in the village of Demir Kapija on Macedonia’s southern border with Greece.
Waterloo handshakes as Europe marks bicentenary united
WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) – Descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington shook hands at Waterloo on the 200th anniversary of a battle that ended French imperial hegemony over Europe and ushered in a century of fragile peace.
Senior U.S. diplomat: Russia missile plan has ‘rattling effect’, reality less dramatic
PRAGUE (Reuters) – A senior U.S. State Department official played down on Thursday an announcement by Russia that it will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.
Pakistani military, politicians swap jibes over corruption
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s main opposition party on Thursday accused the powerful army of trying to usurp the powers of a provincial government, intensifying a showdown between the military and politicians in Pakistan’s biggest and richest city.
Melee erupts at Yemen peace talks, underscoring rifts
GENEVA/SANAA (Reuters) – A fistfight erupted on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva on Thursday between supporters of different warring factions in Yemen, underlining the divisions that have thwarted United Nations efforts broker a truce in the near…
ICRC aid reaches isolated Syrian town near Damascus, conditions ‘dire’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday described living conditions in a Syrian town cut off near Damascus as dire after delivering aid there this week for the first time in six months.
Kenya to give licenses back to 13 Somali money transfer firms: president
NAIROBI (Reuters) – President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday said Kenya will grant licenses to 13 money transfer firms who were banned in the wake of the Garissa university attack in April and whose names are on a list of 85 entities with links to Somalia’…
