Somalia’s al Shabaab fighters attack village in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Militants from Somalia-based al Shabaab attacked a village in northeast Kenya but were beaten back by security forces, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
U.S. approves sale of 10 MH-60 Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 10 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia for $1.9 billion, the first step in a major multibillion-dollar modernization of the Saudi navy’s eastern fleet.
Fresh fighting erupts in east Ukraine, three Ukrainian soldiers killed
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 12 wounded in the latest clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, further eroding a three-month-old ceasefire, Kiev’s military said on Friday.
Saudi-led coalition steps up air strikes on Houthis in Yemen’s Sanaa: residents
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes extended air strikes on Iranian-backed Houthi militia in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, residents in the area said.
Turkish police swoop on Erdogan foes, dozens detained
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police launched an operation on Friday to detain dozens of people including businessmen seen as supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, President Tayyip Erdogan’s ally-turned-foe, a provincial governor’s off…
‘My parents tried to marry me off as a child’: Indian activist
CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At the age of 14 Usha Choudary was betrothed to a man she had never met. She refused to go through with the marriage. When her parents insisted, she threatened to kill herself.
Polish court seeks U.S. help on Polanski case by August 8
WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish court on Friday said that it has requested legal help from the United States as it decides whether to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski over a 1977 child sex crime conviction and that the United States has until Aug. 8 to r…
Stretched Afghan army falls back on militias to help defend Kunduz
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan/KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan government has enlisted hundreds of militia fighters controlled by local commanders to battle Taliban militants near the northern city of Kunduz, officials said, underlining how the armed forces are stru…
Nepalis return to quake epicenter to rebuild stone by stone
BARPAK, Nepal (Reuters) – Dressed in his brother’s old British army fatigues, Mohan Ghale is rebuilding his mother’s home stone by stone, after returning to Barpak village, high in the Himalayas, which was demolished by last month’s earthquake.
Islamic State says it has full control of Syria’s Palmyra
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Thursday and overran Iraqi government defenses east of Ramadi, the provincial capital that they seized five days earlier.
