Yemen’s Houthis hold exercises near Saudi border
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) – Thousands of Shi’ite Muslim Houthi fighters, who control much of Yemen, held military exercises near the border with top oil exporter and Sunni power Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a Houthi commander said, adding to fears Yemen’s chao…
EU leaders unlikely to tighten Russia sanctions at meeting next week: diplomats
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders are unlikely to tighten sanctions on Russia when they meet next week but will haggle over whether they need to act now to prolong economic sanctions on Russia expiring in July, diplomats said on Thursday.
Palestinian activist sentenced to 18 months for U.S. immigration fraud
DETROIT (Reuters) – A Palestinian activist was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for immigration fraud for failing to tell U.S. authorities that she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people.
Khamenei condemns Republican letter on Iran, bemoans U.S. ‘tricks’
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader hit out on Thursday at a letter by U.S. Republican senators threatening to undo any nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran, saying he was worried because the United States was known for “backstabbing”, Mehr n…
Czechs decline comment on Russian espionage report
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech foreign minister declined to comment on Thursday on a magazine report about suspected espionage by Russian diplomats based in the country but he acknowledged that relations with Moscow were “not ideal”.
Israel’s Herzog takes election momentum to Tel Aviv market
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – With opinion polls showing his party holding a narrow but steady lead five days before Israel’s election, opposition leader Isaac Herzog took his campaign to a central Tel Aviv market on Thursday, glad-handing and haggling with eag…
OSCE will extend Ukraine mission one year, may expand its size
VIENNA (Reuters) – The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will extend its observer mission to Ukraine for one year, until March 2016, and may double its size to 1,000 observers, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Five killed, 100 trapped in Bangladesh factory collapse
DHAKA (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and another about 100 feared trapped after a cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh on Thursday, police said.
Suspected drone attack kills three Somali militants: residents
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suspected drone attack killed three members of Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist rebel group on Thursday in southern Somalia while they were driving in a car, residents said.
Latvia minister cites threat from ‘information war’ over Russian minority
RIGA (Reuters) – Latvia’s security is at risk from Russian-funded advocacy groups waging “information war” that suggests the Baltic state is persecuting its Russian minority, its interior minister said in an interview.
