NY’s Giuliani to El Salvador: Annihilate gangs to boost security
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s two rival gangs must be destroyed in order to quell violent crime in the increasingly lawless Central American country, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at a local business conference on Monday.
Saudi-led alliance mulls partial truces in Yemen: statement
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi-led Arab alliance conducting air strikes against Houthi fighters in Yemen is considering calling truces in specific areas in Yemen to allow humanitarian supplies to reach the country, the Saudi foreign minister said on Monday…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram in disarray as government forces advance
MALKOHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram is fracturing as shortages of weapons and fuel foment tensions between its foot soldiers and leaders, women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by Nigerian troops told Reuters.
Poll suggests Britons more likely to vote to stay in EU
LONDON (Reuters) – Britons are more likely to vote to stay part of the European Union than leave in a future membership referendum, a poll showed on Monday, with only 18 percent saying they would definitely elect to exit the bloc.
Afghan talks agree on reopening Taliban political office
AL-KHOR, Qatar/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Representatives at preliminary talks aiming to end Afghanistan’s long war have agreed that Taliban insurgents should open a political office for negotiations, but disagreement over foreign troops is still h…
Iraqi forces plead for help as Islamic State closes in on refinery
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces besieged inside the country’s largest oil refinery are running low on food and pleading for reinforcements to save them from Islamic State militants who have advanced deep into the compound in the past week.
U.S. warships accompany British commercial vessels in Strait of Hormuz: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Navy warships have begun accompanying British-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz as a result of Iran’s detention of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship last week, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Baltic military shadow-boxing said to reach Cold War levels
VISBY FORWARD OPERATING BASE, Sweden (Reuters) – A daily game of Cold War cat-and-mouse is ratcheting up tensions in the Baltic and drawing the biggest military presence into the region for over 20 years, Swedish military officials say.
Around 7,000 Europe-bound migrants rescued, baby girl born on Italian navy ship
ROME (Reuters) – Around 7,000 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing the Mediterranean to Europe over the weekend and on Monday, including a woman who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said.
Kerry holds talks on security, al Shabaab threat in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta discussed on Monday ways to counter the threat from the al Shabaab militant group that killed 148 people at a Kenyan university last month.
