Clashes with Taliban take growing toll on Afghan civilians in 2015
KABUL (Reuters) – Ground clashes between Afghan government forces and the Taliban claimed 8 percent more civilian casualties in the first three months of 2015, the United Nations said on Sunday, and the approaching summer could match last year’s deadly…
Japan Abe’s bloc wins two key governor races, bolstering policy push
TOKYO (Reuters) – Candidates backed by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc won two key governor elections on Sunday, setting the stage for him to push through divisive policies to boost defense and restart nuclear reactors shut after the 20…
Drone strike in northwest Pakistan kills four suspected militants
PARACHINAR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike killed at least four suspected Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, security officials said, as al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent confirmed two of its commanders had …
Poland’s President Komorowski edges up in poll as election looms
WARSAW (Reuters) – With less than one month before Poland’s presidential election, an opinion poll on Sunday showed President Bronislaw Komorowski ahead with 46 percent support from those polled while his conservative challenger Andrzej Duda was backed…
Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, others to death
(This April 11 story corrects ninth paragraph to read “son of”)
German foreign minister rejects calls to invite Putin to G7 talks
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier dismissed on Sunday calls from the radical Left party to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to this year’s summit of the Group of Seven industrial powers.
Spain’s anti-austerity Podemos neck-to-neck with mainstream parties: poll
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s anti-austerity Podemos would win an election by a razor-thin margin if it were held now, a poll showed, but the new leftist party has lost some support in recent months and is running virtually neck-to-neck with the two mains…
Exclusive: Iraq’s leader to seek arms with deferred payment on U.S. visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iraq’s prime minister will seek President Barack Obama’s help to acquire billions of dollars in drones and other U.S. arms to fight Islamic State during a U.S. visit next week, a senior Iraqi official said.
Hiroshima survivors: haunted 70 years on, determined to remember
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Hiroshi Harada remembers how his leg sank into one of the bodies blocking a narrow Hiroshima street 70 years ago, as he fled the spreading fire ignited by the atomic bomb.
Iran’s state TV social media accounts hacked
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Iran’s Arabic-language state TV network Al Alam said on Sunday its Twitter account had been hacked and a false report was posted that an Iran-allied rebel leader in Yemen had died.
