Kurdish forces free oil workers at Kirkuk crude station: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday found and freed workers who had gone missing a day earlier when Islamic State insurgents seized a small crude oil station near the northern city of Kirkuk, the provincial governor and a provincial coun…
Greek turmoil an unexpected boon for German AfD eurosceptics
BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) – The new Greek government’s anti-bailout stance has sent shudders through much of Europe but Germany’s euroskeptic AfD party can hardly believe its good fortune ahead of a regional election as a breakup of the euro zone sudde…
Suicide bomber kills 10 people in northeast Nigeria’s Potiskum
BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the house of a legislator in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, killing 10 people, two security sources told Reuters.
Syria aims to ‘flush out all terrorists’ in 2015: PM
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s prime minister said on Sunday the country wanted to drive all insurgents out of its territory in 2015 and was prepared to back any attempts to fight global militancy.
Sudan rebels free Bulgarian aid workers: ministry
SOFIA (Reuters) – Six Bulgarian U.N. aid workers who were detained by rebels in Sudan’s strife-torn South Kordofan region have been released, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said on Sunday.
Right-wing firebrand shakes up cosy Swiss politics
MAENNEDORF, Switzerland (Reuters) – As a child growing up near the Swiss border with Germany in the early 1940s, Christoph Blocher remembers soldiers camping out in his family’s garden, ready to defend the neutral nation against a surprise attack from …
A week in and Greece’s new leftist PM sticks to tough line, for now
ATHENS (Reuters) – Judging from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ first week in office, Greece’s new leftist government is determined to take the hard-line, anti-bailout stance that international investors and European leaders had feared.
At least 1,375 Iraqis killed in January, most of them civilians: U.N.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Fighting and other violence in Iraq killed at least 1,375 people including 790 civilians in January, the United Nations said on Sunday.
Greece shakes Europe’s political kaleidoscope: expect the unexpected
LONDON (Reuters) – By catapulting to power an improbable alliance of the hard left and nationalist far right, Greece has shaken up Europe’s political kaleidoscope and may have signalled the end of an era of centrist consensus.
North Korea says U.S. rejects invitation to Pyongyang
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Sunday the United States had rejected an invitation to send one of its top diplomats to Pyongyang, accusing Washington of trying to shift the blame for the deadlock in denuclearisation talks on the North.
