Finland’s new ‘DIY’ PM aims for business acumen in government
HELSINKI (Reuters) – After only a few years of party leadership, Finland’s next prime minister Juha Sipila beat electoral expectations by emphasizing his business acumen as a telecom millionaire executive while maintaining traditional Finnish roots tha…
Ramadi exodus compounds Iraq humanitarian crisis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Some pushed wheelbarrows piled high with their belongings across the only bridge to Baghdad. Others balanced battered suitcases on their heads, or held babies aloft so they would not be crushed in the exodus from Iraq’s western prov…
Obama, Tunisia’s Essebsi to meet in wake of attack, elections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S President Barack Obama and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will meet in Washington next month to discuss security and economic issues, including the situation in neighboring Libya, the White House said in a statement on …
Islamic State shoots and beheads 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya: video
CAIRO (Reuters) – A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Russia says it has killed Islamist insurgency chief
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces have killed the leader of an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus during a raid on a house in the Dagestan region, the national Anti-Terrorist Committee said on Monday.
French, Syrian intelligence agents in contact: Assad on French TV
PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told French television the intelligence services of his country are in contact with their counterparts in France, which has severed diplomatic ties with Assad and insists he must leave power.
U.S. pair accused in Bali suitcase murder may hear verdicts Tuesday
JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court is expected to deliver its verdicts on Tuesday on a U.S. couple accused in connection with the gruesome murder of an American woman whose body was stuffed into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali.
Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs
KIEV (Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko is using the breathing space from a ceasefire with separatists to push reforms and rein in super-rich ‘oligarchs’ whose influence he says must be curbed for Ukraine to have a future in Europe.
Japan’s Abe says ready to meet China’s Xi at Jakarta conference
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that he was ready to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of an Asian-African summit in Jakarta this week if the chance arises.
Erdogan divides Turkish women with approach to tackling violence
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – When 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan was stabbed and beaten to death after trying to fight off a man bent on raping her on a minibus, Turkey’s president called violence against women the country’s “bleeding wound”.
