Bodies of six displaced Sunni men found dumped in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The bodies of six displaced Sunni men were found dumped in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Tuesday with bullet wounds to the head, police sources and the head of the tribe to which they belonged said.
Explosion at radio station in central Nigeria kills four: police
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – An improvised explosive device detonated at a radio station in the central Nigerian state of Kogi Monday night killing at least four people, police said on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia arrests 93 Islamic State suspects: state news agency
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has arrested 93 people suspected of belonging to the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State, including at least 65 Saudi nationals, the interior ministry said in a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency o…
At least 52 missing, feared dead in Afghanistan landslide
KABUL (Reuters) – At least 52 people are missing and feared dead following a landslide in a remote village in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday.
One dead, 241 injured in South Africa train collision
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and more than 200 were injured after two commuter trains collided in a suburb of South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg on Tuesday, train operator Metrorail and emergency services said.
Ukraine says separatists step up attacks, Poroshenko warns of ‘threat of war’
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s leader warned on Tuesday that a war with pro-Russian separatists could still break out again as its military said the rebels had greatly stepped up attacks and widened the area of their operations despite a ceasefire.
Bangladesh opposition boycotts mayoral elections, calls them rigged
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s main opposition party on Tuesday boycotted three mayoral elections over accusations of massive rigging, fanning fears of further unrest in the South Asian nation.
Tsipras presses for May debt deal, says referendum possible
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday he was confident of an outline deal with international creditors within two weeks, after shaking up his negotiating team and sidelining his finance minister who has infuriated euro …
Islamic State has killed over 2,000 off battlefield since June: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday.
India cancels licenses of nearly 9,000 charities over foreign funds
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundatiob) – India has canceled the registration of nearly 9,000 charities for failing to declare details of donations from abroad, as New Delhi tightens surveillance on foreign-funded non-governmental organizations in the c…
