Child in Islamic State video may be linked to French gunman: source
PARIS (Reuters) – French officials are investigating whether a child shown shooting dead an Israeli Arab in a video posted by Islamic State militants is French and has ties to an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in March 2012, a police …
Colombia president’s bombing halt on rebels slammed by inspector general
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The decision by Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend the bombing of Marxist FARC rebel bases came under fire from the country’s powerful inspector general who accused him of paralyzing the armed forces while guerrillas …
Mexican mayoral candidate decapitated in violent Guerrero state
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 42-year-old woman running for mayor in a violent southwestern Mexican state that sparked the biggest crisis of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration has been kidnapped and decapitated.
Air strike hits western Libyan town: officials
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least one warplane belonging to an armed group controlling Libya’s capital attacked a western town allied with the internationally recognized government on Wednesday, officials said, the latest in a series of tit-for-tat attacks….
Venezuela opposition seethes after OAS envoy’s bullet comment
CARACAS (Reuters) – Mocking remarks by Venezuela’s envoy to the Organization of American States suggesting a bullet would pass easily through the “empty” head of an opposition sympathizer have set off a social media firestorm.
U.N. official calls China’s crackdown on Uighurs ‘disturbing’
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights investigator on Wednesday criticized China’s crackdown on the Muslim Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang, citing “disturbing stories” of harassment and intimidation against the ethnic minority.
U.N. official calls China’s crackdown on Uighurs ‘disturbing’
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights investigator on Wednesday criticized China’s crackdown on the Muslim Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang, citing “disturbing stories” of harassment and intimidation against the ethnic minority.
U.N. official calls China’s crackdown on Uighurs ‘disturbing’
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights investigator on Wednesday criticized China’s crackdown on the Muslim Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang, citing “disturbing stories” of harassment and intimidation against the ethnic minority.
Seventy insurgents defect to Syrian army in Damascus suburb
AMMAN (Reuters) – Around seventy Syrian rebels have fled from an opposition held suburb south of the Syrian capital and surrendered with their light arms to the Syrian army, a monitoring group and an army source said on Wednesday.
Seventy insurgents defect to Syrian army in Damascus suburb
AMMAN (Reuters) – Around seventy Syrian rebels have fled from an opposition held suburb south of the Syrian capital and surrendered with their light arms to the Syrian army, a monitoring group and an army source said on Wednesday.
