Netanyahu claims victory in Israel election after hard right shift
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election after exit polls showed he had erased his center-left rivals’ lead with a hard rightward shift in which he abandoned a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian st…
Food concerns mount in Vanuatu after monster cyclone
PORT VILA (Reuters) – International aid agencies ramped up appeals for cyclone-hit Vanuatu on Wednesday, warning that the powerful storm which affected more than two-thirds of the South Pacific island nation had wiped out crops and destroyed fishing fl…
Putin, Erdogan discuss ‘Turkish Stream’ gas project: Kremlin
MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the “Turkish Stream” gas project during a phone call, the Kremlin said in a statement on Tuesday, as Moscow continues to push for its new undersea…
U.S. loses drone over Syria, which claims to have brought it down
BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone over Syria on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, stopping short of confirming the plane was taken down by Syrian air defenses, as reported by Syrian state media.
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Indonesia, no tsunami threat
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the northwest of Ternate in Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
U.S. warns lack of accountability hampers South Sudan peace bid
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A lack of accountability in South Sudan for “atrocities, sexual and gender based violence, child soldier recruitment and mass graves” hinders a bid for peace in the world’s youngest state, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations…
Lawyer for Pakistan doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden shot dead
PESHAWAR (Reuters) – A Pakistani lawyer under death threats for defending a doctor who helped CIA agents hunt al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead on Tuesday, police said, and two militant groups claimed responsibility.
Press freedom at stake in Lebanon tribunal case, says accused
LONDON (Reuters) – The planned trial of a Lebanese journalist and her TV station over a report that allegedly hindered the work of an international tribunal could endanger press freedom in Lebanon and beyond, according to the accused and her lawyer.
Ukraine says wants to be ‘flexible’ with its bondholders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukraine’s finance minister on Tuesday said the country wants to be “flexible” in its discussions with sovereign bondholders over renegotiating its debt, and is not ruling out any form of an agreement, including maturity extension…
Altercation, death threats at Indian school before nun was raped
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) – In the days before the rape of an elderly nun in an armed assault that has shaken India, death threats and extortion attempts had already shattered the peace at her Convent of Jesus and Mary school, police and schoo…
