Waterloo handshakes as Europe marks bicentenary united
WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) – Descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington shook hands at Waterloo on the 200th anniversary of a battle that ended French imperial hegemony over Europe and ushered in a century of fragile peace.
Senior U.S. diplomat: Russia missile plan has ‘rattling effect’, reality less dramatic
PRAGUE (Reuters) – A senior U.S. State Department official played down on Thursday an announcement by Russia that it will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.
Pakistani military, politicians swap jibes over corruption
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s main opposition party on Thursday accused the powerful army of trying to usurp the powers of a provincial government, intensifying a showdown between the military and politicians in Pakistan’s biggest and richest city.
Melee erupts at Yemen peace talks, underscoring rifts
GENEVA/SANAA (Reuters) – A fistfight erupted on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva on Thursday between supporters of different warring factions in Yemen, underlining the divisions that have thwarted United Nations efforts broker a truce in the near…
ICRC aid reaches isolated Syrian town near Damascus, conditions ‘dire’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday described living conditions in a Syrian town cut off near Damascus as dire after delivering aid there this week for the first time in six months.
Kenya to give licenses back to 13 Somali money transfer firms: president
NAIROBI (Reuters) – President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday said Kenya will grant licenses to 13 money transfer firms who were banned in the wake of the Garissa university attack in April and whose names are on a list of 85 entities with links to Somalia’…
Putin ally proposes early election to get through Russia’s storm
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A former finance minister proposed on Thursday bringing forward the next presidential election to give his ally, Vladimir Putin, a stronger mandate to reform the economy and guide Russia through a financial “storm”.
Toyota PR chief arrested on suspected Japan drug violation
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp’s head of public relations, an American and its first female senior executive, was arrested on Thursday on a suspected violation of Japan’s drug laws for sending a painkiller through the mail.
Arson attack guts part of Israel’s Church of Loaves and Fishes
TABGHA, Israel (Reuters) – An arson attack on Thursday gutted part of a church at the traditional site of what Christianity reveres as Jesus’s miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli fire brigade said.
Turkish election board confirms AK Party won 258 of 550 parliamentary seats
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s AK Party (AKP) won 258 of parliament’s 550 seats in a June 7 election, while the second-biggest Republican People’s Party (CHP) took 132 seats, according to official results announced on Thursday.
