Boko Haram militants kill a dozen villagers in Niger: sources
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Suspected Nigerian Boko Haram insurgents killed at least a dozen villagers and wounded several others in an attack in southeastern Niger on Wednesday night, security sources said.
Noose tightens around thousands caught in Iraq’s Anbar offensive
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – As Iraqi forces prepare to try to recapture the city of Falluja, tens of thousands of civilians find themselves trapped between Islamic State militants ready to use them as human shields and a government suspicious of th…
Car explodes near high-security Saudi prison, driver killed – ministry
RIYADH (Reuters) – A car exploded at a checkpoint near Saudi Arabia’s highest security prison at sunset on Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials, the interior ministry said.
ICC judges: prosecutors must revisit 2010 Israeli flotilla raid
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court asked prosecutors to reconsider their decision not to investigate an attack by Israeli armed forces on a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
U.S. reports 31 air strikes against Islamic state in Syria and Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies carried out 31 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday, a U.S. military statement said.
Afghanistan still most perilous country for aid workers: consultancy
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Afghanistan, torn by conflict for more than three decades, kept its place as the most dangerous country for aid workers in 2014, when more than a quarter of all attacks on aid staff took place there, the consulting…
Brazil House speaker weighs possibility of Rousseff impeachment
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress said on Thursday he is weighing legal arguments to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, which would be the first ouster of a sitting president in the country in nearly 23 years.
U.N. conference agrees on plan to finance development goals
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – More than 100 countries have agreed on a framework to bankroll an array of ambitious development goals, ranging from tackling poverty to dealing with climate change by 2030.
As Syrian Kurds advance against Islamic State, other ethnic groups flee
AKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) – Cemal Dede fled his home in a remote Turkmen village in Syria after warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State bombed the house next door. He had no idea he wouldn’t be coming back.
French cave engravings reveal last thoughts of WW1 soldiers
BOUZINCOURT, France (Reuters) – Neglected for decades, underground caves in a small village in France’s Somme valley contain a treasure trove of hundreds of engravings by World War One Canadian and British soldiers as they sought refuge from German ass…
