Pro-Kurdish party vows to be ‘nightmare’ for Turkey’s Erdogan
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) vowed on Tuesday to be President Tayyip Erdogan’s “nightmare” if it enters parliament after a June election by blocking his plans for an executive presidency.
Syrian Kurds see Islamic State threat to city in northeast
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State is preparing for a possible attack on a city in northeastern Syria near the border with Iraq where it remains a big threat despite recent setbacks, a Kurdish official told Reuters on Tuesday.
Ukraine says it aims to prevent Russian attacks at WW2 commemorations
KIEV(Reuters) – Ukraine is planning an operation involving tens of thousands of police to guard against any attack by separatists or Russian agents during World War Two commemorations next month, security chiefs said on Tuesday.
U.S. Catholic bishop in child pornography case resigns, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City, who was convicted of failing to alert authorities to a trove of child pornography found on a priest’s computer in 2012, has resigned, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
Pakistan hangs 15, highest number since executions resumed
LAHORE (Reuters) – Pakistan hanged 15 people on Tuesday, officials said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.
Old loyalties, religious cohesion may frustrate Islamic State in Libya
CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State’s executions of Christians show the group is exploiting Libya’s lawlessness but tribal and political loyalties and the absence of a sectarian divide mean it is unlikely to grow as rapidly there as in Iraq or Syria.
Arrival of more U.S. warships off Yemen tightens ‘siege’: Houthis
CAIRO (Reuters) – A senior official in the Iran-allied Houthi movement said the movement of more U.S. warships into waters off Yemen escalates Washington’s role in a Saudi-led campaign against the group and aims at tightening a “siege” on the country.
Indian minister says 2,000 girls ‘killed’ every day
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two thousand girls are “killed” every day due to a preference for sons in India with most aborted or murdered just after birth, the country’s minister for women and child development said.
Brazilian vice-president sees no impeachment case against Rousseff
LISBON (Reuters) – Brazil’s vice president has dismissed the possibility that President Dilma Rousseff could soon be impeached for breaking fiscal responsibility laws, telling a Portuguese newspaper that the case against her was just in its early stage…
Barring economic slump, Europe’s populists may be peaking
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – It may sound counter-intuitive after the Euroskeptic Finns Party grabbed second place in Finland’s general election, but a surge by anti-establishment protest groups sweeping Europe may be peaking.
