EU will be damaged if fails to agree U.S. trade deal: UK minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Failing to agree a transatlantic free trade deal would be damaging for the European Union and send a message that the bloc has waning international importance, Britain’s Minister for Europe said on Thursday.
U.S. man admits to killing girlfriend’s mother in Bali suitcase murder case
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – – A U.S. man confessed in an Indonesian court on Thursday to killing his pregnant girlfriend’s mother, in a grisly case in which the victim’s battered body was found in an abandoned suitcase on the resort island of Bali….
Exclusive: From ‘Red October’ village, new evidence on downing of Malaysian plane over Ukraine
CHERVONYI ZHOVTEN, Ukraine (Reuters) – Villagers in eastern Ukraine have told Reuters they saw a missile flying directly overhead just before a Malaysian airliner was shot out of the sky on July 17 last year, providing the most detailed accounts to dat…
Pakistani splinter group rejoins Taliban amid fears of isolation
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – A militant splinter group that broke from the Pakistani Taliban last year and declared allegiance to Islamic State announced on Thursday it was rejoining the Taliban insurgency, a move that could be prompted by fe…
Protesting airport guards stop Libyan PM boarding plane
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Airport guards stopped Libya’s Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni from getting on a plane to Tunis in protest against his choice of interior minister, officials said, in a stark demonstration of the collapse of state authorit…
Left alone against Syrian army, U.S-trained rebels cannot beat Islamic State: opposition
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-trained rebels due to fight Islamic State will fail if they are not also protected from the Syrian army, the main Western-backed political opposition said on Thursday, after Washington said it might lack the legal authority to d…
U.S.-led forces conduct 13 air strikes in Iraq: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and coalition partners conducted 13 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq since early Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
Six Somali policemen killed in Islamist attack on central city: police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Six Somali policemen were killed on Thursday when al Shabaab Islamist militants detonated a car bomb outside a regional government headquarters in the central city of Baidoa and then stormed into the compound, police said.
British spies carry out mass interception of emails, but only read a few: report
LONDON (Reuters) – British spies carry out mass interception of the public’s emails and access large databases with individuals’ personal details, but their actions are not indiscriminate or unlawful, a powerful committee of lawmakers said on Thursday….
Boko Haram targets Arabs in reprisal for Chad offensive
FOTOKOL, Cameroon (Reuters) – Boko Haram is carrying out ethnic reprisals against Arabic speakers in northern Nigeria, accusing them of aiding Chad’s army fighting against the Islamist group, military officers and residents say.
