Niger army kills 30 suspected Boko Haram insurgents: sources
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s army killed at least 30 suspected Boko Haram fighters as it searched for militants in villages just over the border with Nigeria, security sources said.
Did the U.N. financing for development conference deliver?
ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major United Nations summit to finance ambitious global development goals, from giving free education to all to dealing with climate change, fell short of developing countries’ expectations with few aid pled…
Serbia cautions ethnic kin in Bosnia against court referendum
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia urged Serbs in neighboring Bosnia on Friday to think again before holding a referendum on the authority of the national court, a vote the West says would challenge the integrity of the Bosnian state.
Kerry: ‘very, very hopeful’ Iran will release detained Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he raised the topic of detained Americans at every meeting he held with Iranians during the final weeks of nuclear negotiations and said he is hopeful Tehran would release them.
Suicide bombers kill nine at Muslim prayers: Nigerian army
DAMATURU, Nigeria (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers, an elderly woman and a 10-year-old girl, killed at least nine people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday morning as worshippers gathered to mark the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, a mi…
Mass killer Breivik to study at Oslo University, from jail
OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik won a place on Friday to study at Oslo University from solitary confinement in prison, despite outrage at his massacre of 77 people four years ago.
EU panel urges pilot screening after Germanwings crash
LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) – In the wake of the Germanwings disaster, all airline pilots should undergo psychological screening and allow details of medical visits to be shared in a proposed European database, according to new recommendations delivered to…
China to deport foreign tourists after ‘terror’ video case
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will deport nine foreign tourists whom it detained over the weekend, apparently after they had watched a “terror” video, their governments and a charity said on Friday.
Islamic State ordered failed attack on France: prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) – A thwarted attack on a French naval site that was to include the beheading of the base’s chief officer followed a direct order from a Syria-based member of Islamic State to “hit France”, the Paris prosecutor said on Friday.
Kyrgyz security police say they foiled two Islamic State attacks
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Six militants killed by security forces in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek on Thursday belonged to Islamic State, the security police said on Friday, adding they had captured another seven members of the same group who were planning at…
