Tanzania warns of violence in Burundi if president seeks third term
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Peace mediator Tanzania warned of the risk of renewed violence in Burundi if politicians do not abide by a new constitution that would prevent the president there running for another term.
U.S., allies launch eight airstrikes against Islamic State: task force
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its coalition allies staged eight air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq since early Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement.
Police arrest fifth man over Copenhagen shooting attacks
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Police have arrested a fifth man in connection with February shooting attacks at a free speech event and a synagogue that killed two people, police said on Friday.
Death toll rises to at least 24 in Yemen’s mosque suicide bomb attacks: sources
SANAA (Reuters) – At least 24 people were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up in two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday during noon prayers, security and medical sources told Reuters.
Germany condemns Russian deal with South Ossetia as threat to Georgia
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government on Friday condemned Russia’s new treaty with Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia region, saying it posed a threat to Georgian sovereignty and would reinforce Tbilisi’s fears that Moscow was intent on annexing the …
Pakistan bomb targets mosque in rare attack on Muslim minority
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A bomb exploded outside a Bohra mosque after Friday prayers in the Pakistani financial hub of Karachi, wounding at least a dozen people, television said, the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim minorities.
African troops’ morale ‘sky high’ as they push back Boko Haram
DAMASAK, Nigeria (Reuters) – “Boko Haram is finished” shouted a jubilant soldier from Niger as his comrades danced and waved their rifles in the air to celebrate the liberation of the northern Nigerian town of Damasak.
Islamic State video purports to show Kurdish peshmerga beheadings
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Islamic State has published a video purporting to show the beheading of three Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq by militants who threatened to kill “dozens” more of those being held captive.
Energy and Crimean Tatars top agenda as Turkey’s Erdogan visits Ukraine
ANKARA (Reuters) – Energy ties and the fate of Crimean Tatars will top the agenda when Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets his Ukrainian counterpart in Kiev on Friday, but concrete deals are unlikely as he seeks to avoid straining relations with Mos…
Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Defense Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military’s involvement….
