Enemy fire, booby-traps delay Iraqi forces’ advance in Tikrit
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces battled Islamic State militants in central Tikrit on Sunday as the United States and its allies provided aerial support and local officials warned that the battle to retake the Sunni Muslim city would not be qu…
Turkey detains five Dutch people seeking to enter Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish security forces have detained five Dutch citizens who were trying to cross the border illegally from Turkey into Syria, the Turkish military said in a statement on Sunday.
Nigeria opposition protests presidential vote in oil state
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) – Confusion and sporadic violence blighted Nigeria’s tensest presidential election since the end of army rule, with opposition supporters disputing results on Sunday from a turbulent southern state even before they were…
Tanzania president warns of rising religious tensions before referendum
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s president said tensions between Muslims and Christians were rising ahead of a constitutional referendum and elections and warned religious leaders against political meddling, saying this could stoke violence.
Fifth Kenyan minister steps aside to make way for graft probe
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A fifth Kenyan government minister vacated her post on Sunday, three days after President Uhuru Kenyatta said officials cited in a report by an anti-corruption watchdog should step aside pending investigation.
Afghan court sentences AP photojournalist’s killer to 20 years in jail
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan police officer who shot and killed a veteran Associated Press photographer during the country’s 2014 presidential election has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, a Supreme Court official told Reuters on Sunday.
Singapore stands still as nation bids farewell to founding father Lee
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Grieving Singaporeans were joined by world leaders on Sunday to pay their final respects to the country’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, as the nation came to a near-halt to honor its “founding father”.
Germanwings crash co-pilot may have had detached retina: newspaper
BERLIN (Reuters) – The co-pilot suspected of crashing a passenger jet in the Alps may have been suffering from a detached retina but investigators are unsure whether his vision problems had physical or psychological causes, a German newspaper said on S…
Tens of thousands of Tunisians march after Bardo attack
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against Islamist militants on Sunday, hours after the government said its forces had killed nine members of a group suspected of carrying out this mont…
Hardline Mali rebel demands stall hopes for peace
DAKAR (Reuters) – Mediators in northern Mali’s conflict underestimated the radicalization of a new generation at the heart of a separatist movement, a misstep that left the peace process in tatters after rebels refused to sign a proposed deal.
