Iraqi Kurds prepare Sinjar mountain offensive
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are drawing up plans to break Islamic State’s siege of Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of minority Yazidis remain stranded months after fleeing their homes.
Over 800 sea-borne migrants saved in Italy, northern Cyprus
ROME/NICOSIA (Reuters) – Italy’s coastguard said it has rescued more than 600 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and North Africa this weekend and started a search for one man feared drowned during the passage.
British PM Cameron’s party says likely to fail to cut immigration
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives said on Sunday they were unlikely to keep a promise to reduce net migration to “tens of thousands”, possibly damaging their reelection chances next year.
Putin says Russia not isolated over Ukraine, blames West for frosty ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for worsening relations with Russia since the Ukraine crisis and said Moscow would not allow itself to become internationally isolated behind another ‘Iron Curtain’.
Egypt could send troops to a Palestinian state to help out: paper
MILAN (Reuters) – Egypt would be ready to lend a hand in securing a future Palestinian state by sending in troops that could help out local police and offer Israel security guarantees, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a newspaper intervi…
Over 25 killed in attack on Nigerian fishing community
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – More than 25 people, mostly fishermen, have been shot dead in a remote community in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, the heartland of Islamist group Boko Haram, police and witnesses said on Sunday.
Irish police given names of suspected IRA sex abusers: newspaper
DUBLIN (Reuters) – A senior member of the Irish Republican Army has passed on to Irish police the names of six former members suspected of committing sex abuse, the Sunday Times newspaper said.
Journalists remember 32 colleagues slain in the Philippines
MANILA (Reuters) – Dozens of foreign and local journalists lit candles on Sunday to remember the 2009 murder of 32 journalists in the southern Philippines, the biggest recorded killing of media workers in history.
Iran says nuclear deal ‘impossible’ by November 24 deadline: ISNA
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran says it will not be possible by a November 24 deadline to reach a comprehensive deal with world powers aimed at resolving the stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iranian Students News Agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Moldova, eyeing Ukraine, divided on Europe integration as election nears
CHISINAU (Reuters) – An election in ex-Soviet Moldova next weekend will decide how closely it sticks to its path of European integration in defiance of Russia, as neighboring Ukraine struggles to handle a war triggered by following a similar pro-Europe…
