UK PM Cameron’s Conservatives take largest poll lead in four years
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives have taken their largest Ipsos-MORI poll lead over the opposition Labour party in four years, according to the company’s latest survey published on Wednesday, less than six months ahead of…
Kurds block an Islamic State supply route to Syria’s Kobani
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Kurdish forces blocked a road Islamic State militants use to resupply their forces in a Syrian town on the Turkish border, a town official and a monitoring group said on Wednesday, the first major gain against the jihadists after wee…
Myanmar ‘backsliding’ on reforms in some areas, Obama says
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s transition from military rule has not been as fast as hoped and the government is “backsliding” on some reforms, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Wednesday, hours before he was due to visit the …
Israeli border policeman arrested over Palestinian boy’s killing
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police have arrested a paramilitary border policeman over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank in May, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
Ailing Serb nationalist returns from decade-long war crimes detention
BELGRADE (Reuters) – An ailing Serbian nationalist leader returned home on Wednesday after more than a decade in detention in The Hague, released on grounds of ill health before a verdict could be reached in his long-running war crimes trial.
At least 33 dead in Yemeni clashes, U.S. drone kills seven
SANAA (Reuters) – At least 33 people have been killed in central Yemen in fighting in the past two days between Shi’ite Muslim Houthi fighters trying to expand their control and Sunni tribes allied with al Qaeda, residents said on Wednesday.
Sinai buffer zone no solution to militancy in Egypt: Amnesty
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Egypt’s plan to create a security buffer zone along its border with Gaza is not a solution to growing militancy in the Sinai region as it does not address the roots of the problem, the head of Amnesty International said on Wednesd…
Indian PM’s party shakes up election race in disputed Kashmir
SRINAGAR India (Reuters) – Accompanied by half a dozen guards, Hina Bhat knocks on doors in Srinagar, the heart of a revolt against Indian rule, to persuade Kashmiris to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party in this month’s state election.
ASEAN to pressure China to stick to diplomacy on maritime disputes
NAYPYITAW Myanmar (Reuters) – Southeast Asian leaders will welcome China’s Prime Minister Le Keqiang with fanfare on Wednesday but behind closed doors will push their giant neighbor to take a less bellicose approach to overlapping claims in the South C…
Special Report: The fighters of Iraq who answer to Iran
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Among the thousands of militia fighters who flocked to northern Iraq to battle militant group Islamic State over the summer was Qais al-Khazali.
