Rebels pound Ukrainian troops after peace talks fail
YENAKIEVE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Separatist rockets streaked across hills in eastern Ukraine on Monday as rebels pounded the positions of Ukrainian government troops holding a strategic rail town, while both sides prepared to mobilise more forces for com…
Cuba detains fewer dissidents following detente with U.S.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban police detained 178 opposition activists in January, the lowest monthly total in more than four years as Cuba entered talks with the United States to restore diplomatic relations, a dissident human rights organization said on M…
Spain to pass measures to tackle homegrown Islamist militants
(Reuters) – The Spanish government and the main opposition party have agreed to pass new measures to combat individuals traveling to fight in radical Islamist groups or acting in “lone wolf” attacks on home soil, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Mo…
Anti-Islam group PEGIDA holds first Austria march
VIENNA (Reuters) – PEGIDA, the anti-Islam movement born in Germany, drew hundreds of supporters and counter-demonstrators to the streets of Vienna when it held its first march in neighboring Austria on Monday.
French economy minister says received death threats over reforms
PARIS (Reuters) – French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron has had death threats from legal officials whose profession he is trying to reform, he told lawmakers reviewing his pro-growth bill on Monday.
Syrian rebels say holding Iranian fighter, seeking swap
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A mainstream Syrian rebel group said on Monday they were seeking to swap an Iranian taken captive in the southwestern province of Deraa last month for women held in Syrian government jails.
Female Iraqi militant held by Jordan is heroine to jihadists
AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – When her husband blew himself up in a luxury hotel during a wedding in Amman a decade ago, Sajida al-Rishawi was meant to die too, but her suicide bomb belt did not go off. Today, as a death-row prisoner in Jordan, she is a he…
Parents of murdered Mexican students seek justice at UN watchdog
GENEVA (Reuters) – The parents of Mexican students believed murdered by a drugs gang appealed to the United Nations on Monday for help in seeking justice, saying they had no faith in the government’s ability to investigate the crime.
Dutch journalist to be tried in Turkey on ‘terror propaganda’ charges
ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish prosecutor formally accused a Dutch journalist of ‘terrorist propaganda’ on Monday, and asked she be jailed for up to five years, local media reported on Monday, a move that will deepen fears over press freedom in the NATO …
Syrian Kurds push back Islamic State around Kobani: monitor, Kurds
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Kurdish militia backed by U.S.-led air strikes are making rapid advances against Islamic State forces in rural areas around Kobani after driving the group from the Syrian border town last week, the Kurdish militia and a monitoring gr…
