Council fears US troop decision to hurt faltering Afghan peace process
KABUL (Reuters) – The official body overseeing the Afghan peace process and other influential players in the region have criticized President Ashraf Ghani for pushing for U.S. troops to stay longer, saying it could hurt the chances of ending the Taliba…
Searchers build roadway to remote France air crash site
PARIS (Reuters) – French investigators hope to speed up identification of the 150 people killed in last week’s Germanwings plane crash by digging a roadtrack that will allow direct access to the disaster zone high on a remote Alpine mountainside.
UK’s Cameron meets Queen, starts knife-edge election campaign
LONDON (Reuters) – Campaigning in Britain’s closest election in decades began on Monday after Prime Minister David Cameron met Queen Elizabeth to tell her parliament had been dissolved, teeing up a fraught battle to govern a $2.8 trillion economy.
U.N. Secretary General troubled by Iraq abuse claims, refugees
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he was concerned about reported abuses by Iraqi pro-government forces and militias in their war against Islamic State.
Obama to visit Kenya in July for entrepreneurship summit: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Kenya in July for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, his fourth trip to sub-Saharan Africa during his presidency, the White House said in a statement on Monday.
Kenya announces plans to reopen Nairobi mall after attack
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s Westgate mall, the scene of a four-day siege in late 2013 that left dozens dead, will reopen to the public in July for the first time since the attack, officials said on Monday.
Germany to invest in French military satellite program: document
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany wants to invest 210 million euros ($228 million) in France’s new military Earth observation satellite program in return for more access to images captured by the satellites, according to an internal parliamentary document see…
Veteran Uzbek leader re-elected in vote OSCE brands undemocratic
ALMATY (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s veteran leader Islam Karimov easily won another five years at the helm of Central Asia’s most populous nation in an election that Europe’s main security body criticized for lacking genuine opposition.
HK activists use newspaper petition to warn of academic threats
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Activists published a full-page petition in a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong on Monday, warning of growing threats to academic freedom and the educational system amid fears of a broader Chinese clampdown on the former Bri…
War crimes court revokes Serb nationalist Seselj’s compassionate release
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – United Nations judges summoned Serbian politician Vojislav Seselj back to The Hague on Monday, ruling that the nationalist, who has terminal cancer, must return to answer allegations that he violated the terms of his compassionate…
