Czechs decline comment on Russian espionage report
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech foreign minister declined to comment on Thursday on a magazine report about suspected espionage by Russian diplomats based in the country but he acknowledged that relations with Moscow were “not ideal”.
Israel’s Herzog takes election momentum to Tel Aviv market
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – With opinion polls showing his party holding a narrow but steady lead five days before Israel’s election, opposition leader Isaac Herzog took his campaign to a central Tel Aviv market on Thursday, glad-handing and haggling with eag…
OSCE will extend Ukraine mission one year, may expand its size
VIENNA (Reuters) – The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will extend its observer mission to Ukraine for one year, until March 2016, and may double its size to 1,000 observers, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Five killed, 100 trapped in Bangladesh factory collapse
DHAKA (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and another about 100 feared trapped after a cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh on Thursday, police said.
Suspected drone attack kills three Somali militants: residents
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suspected drone attack killed three members of Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist rebel group on Thursday in southern Somalia while they were driving in a car, residents said.
Latvia minister cites threat from ‘information war’ over Russian minority
RIGA (Reuters) – Latvia’s security is at risk from Russian-funded advocacy groups waging “information war” that suggests the Baltic state is persecuting its Russian minority, its interior minister said in an interview.
EU will be damaged if fails to agree U.S. trade deal: UK minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Failing to agree a transatlantic free trade deal would be damaging for the European Union and send a message that the bloc has waning international importance, Britain’s Minister for Europe said on Thursday.
U.S. man admits to killing girlfriend’s mother in Bali suitcase murder case
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – – A U.S. man confessed in an Indonesian court on Thursday to killing his pregnant girlfriend’s mother, in a grisly case in which the victim’s battered body was found in an abandoned suitcase on the resort island of Bali….
Exclusive: From ‘Red October’ village, new evidence on downing of Malaysian plane over Ukraine
CHERVONYI ZHOVTEN, Ukraine (Reuters) – Villagers in eastern Ukraine have told Reuters they saw a missile flying directly overhead just before a Malaysian airliner was shot out of the sky on July 17 last year, providing the most detailed accounts to dat…
Pakistani splinter group rejoins Taliban amid fears of isolation
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – A militant splinter group that broke from the Pakistani Taliban last year and declared allegiance to Islamic State announced on Thursday it was rejoining the Taliban insurgency, a move that could be prompted by fe…
