Allies back Iraq plan against ISIS, Baghdad seeks more help
PARIS (Reuters) – Western and Arab states carrying out air strikes on Islamic State fighters backed on Tuesday Iraq’s plan to retake territory from the jihadist movement after being accused by the Iraqi premier of not doing enough to help Baghdad push …
Palestinian NGO denies Hamas ties, threatens Israel with legal action
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The British-based Palestinian Return Center on Tuesday threatened Israel’s U.N. mission with legal action after the Jewish state accused it of having ties to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, an allegation the group said …
Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) – More than 20 years after the first wave of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar, fear is spreading through the sweltering camps of mud houses where they found shelter in southern Bangladesh that they will soon be on the move…
Pena Nieto’s ruling PRI in the lead ahead of Mexico mid-terms: poll
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is in the lead ahead of Sunday’s mid-term elections, a poll released on Tuesday shows, potentially returning President Enrique Pena Nieto his razor-thin lower house majorit…
Canada aboriginal schools were ‘cultural genocide’: report
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian policy of forcibly separating aboriginal children from their families and sending them to residential schools amounted to “cultural genocide,” a six-year investigation into the now-defunct system found on Tuesday.
Leader in Afghan north dismisses Kabul government as a ‘show’
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Atta Mohammad Noor, a powerful governor in northern Afghanistan, visited a local amusement park last week and grabbed a video arcade gun. Firing on fictional aliens made a break from the frequent target of his ir…
Pena Nieto’s ruling PRI in the lead ahead of Mexico mid-terms: poll
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is in the lead ahead of Sunday’s mid-term elections, a poll released on Tuesday shows, potentially returning President Enrique Pena Nieto his razor-thin lower house majorit…
Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) – More than 20 years after the first wave of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar, fear is spreading through the sweltering camps of mud houses where they found shelter in southern Bangladesh that they will soon be on the move…
Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China’s Yangtze River
JIANLI COUNTY, China (Reuters) – Rescuers searched on Tuesday for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat was hit by a freak tornado and capsized on the Yangtze River in what may become China’s worst shi…
Turkish volunteers flock to monitor knife-edge election
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – In a meeting room above an upmarket restaurant in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district, some 200 people listen as a young lawyer explains what to watch for when votes are counted in Sunday’s pivotal parliamentary election.
