Chechen leader tells security forces to shoot if Russian police intrude
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The leader of the Russia’s southern region of Chechnya has ordered his police to “shoot to kill” if servicemen from other parts of the country encroach on their territory.
On 100th anniversary, German president condemns Turkish ‘genocide’ against Armenians
BERLIN (Reuters) – German President Joachim Gauck on Thursday condemned the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as “genocide”, a term that the Berlin government had long rejected.
Experts tell U.N. council: Feeling left out drives youth to Islamic State
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Most European youth who travel to Iraq and Syria to fight with Islamic State militants do so because they do not feel at home in Europe, academics told a United Nations Security Council meeting chaired Thursday by Jordan’s 20…
Pentagon says evicted Russian hackers, global cyber threat grows
PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday disclosed a cyber intrusion this year by Russian hackers who accessed an unclassified U.S. military network, in a episode Defense Secretary Ash Carter said showed the growing threat and th…
Germany orders intelligence agency to fix flaws in operations
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has ordered its foreign intelligence agency to address flaws in some of its operations, after Der Spiegel reported that agency officials indirectly helped U.S. agencies spy on European firms such as defense manu…
Former AgustaWestland managers investigated over Algerian deal
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian tax police carried out searches in several cities on Thursday relating to allegations of corruption by former managers of Finmeccanica unit AgustaWestland over a helicopter contract in Algeria, Italian prosecutors said.
U.N. expert says secret trade deals threaten human rights
GENEVA (Reuters) – Secret negotiations on international trade deals threaten human rights, and the inclusion of provisions that would allow companies to sue states appears to violate human rights law, an independent U.N. expert said on Thursday.
Iranian ships moving away from Yemen: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iranian ships are moving northeast away from Yemen, a U.S. official said on Thursday after a convoy of Iranian cargo ships prompted U.S. concerns that Tehran was sending weapons into region.
U.S.-led forces conduct 21 air strikes in Iraq, Syria: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and coalition forces conducted 16 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and five in Syria since Wednesday, the American military said.
Armenian church canonizes victims of 1915 mass killings
VAGHARSHAPAT, Armenia (Reuters) – The Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago.
