UAE sees no defeat of Islamic State without Iraq’s Sunnis: Etihad paper
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates pulled out of U.S.-led air strikes on Islamic State positions partly because it thought they could not succeed without a push to arm Sunni Muslim tribes in Iraq, a newspaper close to the government said on Fri…
Egyptian man gets 25 years in U.S. prison in embassy bombing case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Egyptian man was sentenced in New York on Friday to 25 years in U.S. prison in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Dead prosecutor was a ‘soldier’ of ex-Argentine spy boss
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The Argentine prosecutor found dead last month was the unwitting “soldier” of former counterintelligence chief Antonio Stiusso, who was seeking revenge for his firing, President Cristina Fernandez’s chief of staff said.
Hungary must ‘shut its gates’ faced with surge in migrants-official
ASOTTHALOM, Hungary (Reuters) – Hungary must ‘shut its gates’ to economic migrants, a top ally to Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, urging action to stem a dramatic surge in the number of Kosovars crossing ditches and walking through forests …
Supplying weapons to Ukraine would escalate conflict: Fallon
MUNICH (Reuters) – Supplying weapons to Ukraine, an option under consideration in Washington, would escalate the conflict, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said on Friday.
Sixty-one bodies found in abandoned crematorium in Mexico
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – Sixty-one bodies were discovered in an abandoned crematorium near the decaying seaside resort of Acapulco in Western Mexico, local authorities said on Friday, adding they believed it was a case of negligence rather than lin…
Niger troops and Chad air force fight off Boko Haram attack
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger troops and Chadian war planes fought off an attack on Friday on the Niger town of Bosso by Boko Haram militants whose insurgency is spreading from Nigeria to neighboring states, military officials in Niger said.
Lebanon removes political banners, a legacy of the civil war
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon has begun removing political posters and party banners from neighborhoods of the capital in a move to unify a country still divided from a civil war, following an agreement between the militant and political group Hezbollah a…
Italy’s Renzi strengthened as centrists defect to ruling party
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi got a political boost on Friday when eight members of a centrist party defected to join his ruling Democratic Party (PD), strengthening Renzi’s fragile majority in the upper house Senate.
Egyptian military kills 27 militants in the Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) – Military air strikes killed 27 Islamic militants in Egypt’s Northern Sinai on Friday in one of the biggest security operations in the region in months, security sources said.
