Arbitrary detention and torture widespread in eastern Libya: HRW
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s internationally recognized government and its forces have carried out widespread arbitrary detentions and torture in prisons in the east of the country, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
Dozens of casualties as Yemen car bombs hit mosques, Houthi headquarters: official
SANAA (Reuters) – Four car bombs targeted three mosques and the political headquarters of Yemen’s dominant Houthi group on Wednesday, killing and wounding dozens of people, a security official said.
Jordan arrests suspect in 1982 Paris Jewish attack
PARIS (Reuters) – Jordanian authorities have arrested a suspected member of a Palestinian guerrilla unit behind an attack on a Jewish restaurant in France in 1982 that killed six people, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
France to create 11,000 places for refugees, asylum seekers
PARIS (Reuters) – The French government said on Wednesday it would create 11,000 places to house refugees and asylum seekers as the number of people living in illegal migrant camps swells.
EU to use Tekever drones to help in Mediterranean migrant crisis
(Reuters) – The Portuguese navy plans to use drones to help survey the Mediterranean as the European Union steps up efforts to track and rescue thousands of migrants risking often deadly sea crossings from Africa.
U.S. says hard to recruit for Syrian opposition training program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday said it was proving challenging to recruit Syrian opposition forces for a program to train and equip them to battle Islamic State militants, but that it was too soon to give up on the effort.
Russia, Germany trade Cold War accusations
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia accused NATO on Wednesday of reviving the ghost of the Cold War by encroaching close to its borders and seeking to change the strategic balance of power, as Germany denounced Moscow’s nuclear weapons build-up as a Soviet-style…
A Castro son rises in Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro’s son has emerged as one of his father’s closest aides, taking on an increasingly important role reminiscent of the one Raul used to play for his older brother Fidel Castro.
Hong Kong debates election reform plan with veto likely
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers appeared to be standing firm on Wednesday in their pledge to veto Beijing-backed electoral reforms, as the Asian financial center’s legislature debated the package that will define its democrati…
Russian FinMin finds extra cash for scandal-plagued Vostochny cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The construction of Russia’s Vostochny cosmodrome, taken under President Vladimir Putin’s personal control after strikes and a corruption scandal, is being allocated an additional 50 percent funding this year to speed its completion….
