Chad troops enter Nigerian town in pursuit of Boko Haram
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chadian troops clashed with Boko Haram fighters in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gambaru on Tuesday in a bid to break the Islamist insurgents’ grip on the town bordering Cameroon, Chadian military sources said.
Turkey revokes passport of bitter Erdogan rival Gulen
ANKARA (Reuters) – The Turkish government has canceled the passport of ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gulen, local media reported on Tuesday, the latest salvo in a bitter feud between the U.S.-based Muslim cleric and President Tayyip Erdogan.
Venezuela becoming ‘laughing stock’, ex-Chavez economic guru says
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s economic failings are turning it into the “laughing-stock” of Latin America, according to late president Hugo Chavez’s top economic planner.
Bus carrying Israeli Muslims from prayer crashes, eight dead
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A collision involving a truck and a bus carrying Israeli Muslims returning from prayer at Jerusalem’s al Aqsa mosque killed eight people on Tuesday, police and local officials said.
Blast kills one in Alexandria, bombs found at Cairo airport
CAIRO (Reuters) – A man was killed in a bomb blast in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria on Tuesday, hours after two devices were discovered at Cairo airport and another went off in the center of the capital without casualties, security sources said.
WFP alarmed by pictures of ISIS logos on its Syria food parcels
GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has declared itself “extremely concerned” by photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State logos on them.
Explosion, gunfire along Egypt-Gaza border, no casualties
ISMAILIA/GAZA (Reuters) – Egyptian troops fired warning shots over the frontier into Gaza on Tuesday after a bomb exploded on Gaza territory near an Egyptian army convoy, Egyptian security sources said.
Chile Bachelet’s approval rebounds after half-year of declines
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s approval ratings rebounded in January, reversing a six-month decline, while support for the conservative Alianza bloc dropped to an unprecedented low, pollster Adimark Gfk said on Tuesday.
ICAO seen pressing for quick implementation of flight tracking
PARIS (Reuters) – A United Nations agency may press on Tuesday for rapid adoption of new aircraft tracking proposals, weeks ahead of the anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, officials said.
Iraqi cabinet approves draft law to set up national guard
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a draft law creating a national guard, which Sunni political figures have described as a necessary step to achieving national reconciliation.
