Netanyahu’s main challenger to focus on his own security credentials
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Battling Benjamin Netanyahu’s accusations that he is soft on national security, the Israeli prime minister’s main election rival said on Tuesday he would boost efforts to focus voters on his own military and strategic credentials….
British support for staying in EU hits highest since 2010: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Support for Britain remaining in the European Union has hit its highest in more than four years, according to a poll published on Tuesday, which coincided with a fall in support for the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party.
Obama to decide soon on troop levels in Afghanistan: Kerry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will decide soon on adjusting the level of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
U.S. woman missionary kidnapped in central Nigeria
LAGOS (Reuters) – An American woman working as a Christian missionary in Nigeria was kidnapped overnight, the website of the Free Methodist Church and a security source said on Tuesday.
India seizes record haul of smuggled gold outside airport
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police said they had made the single biggest seizure of gold smuggled into the country on Tuesday after arresting six people leaving an airport with 60 kg of the precious metal flown in from Dubai.
Exclusive: Iran smuggles in $1 billion of bank notes to skirt sanctions – sources
LONDON/ANKARA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – At least $1 billion in cash has been smuggled into Iran as it seeks to avoid Western sanctions, a bigger figure than previously reported, Iranian officials and Western intelligence and diplomatic sources say.
France’s Hollande urges Libya factions to strike political deal
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that warring factions in Libya must strike a political deal to restore a central government, parliament and banking functions, and stop a worsening problem with human trafficking.
Egypt rejects blame for civilians killed in Libya airstrikes
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt on Tuesday rejected accusations of blame in the death of seven civilians killed in Libya last week when Cairo’s military bombed suspected Islamist militant targets after the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians.
Jailed Malaysian opposition leader’s family seeks royal pardon
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday they had filed for a royal pardon two weeks after the 67-year-old former deputy prime minister was sent back to jail for five years.
First Ebola survivors talk of hope and despair in Guinea
GUECKEDOU, Guinea (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lying in an Ebola treatment center in southeast Guinea, hidden behind thick plastic sheets and surrounded by nurses in yellow protective suits, Rose Komano feared she would not survive the virus that had…
