Putin says Russia will drop South Stream if EU does not approve it
ANKARA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia could not carry on with the South Stream gas pipeline project if the European Union was opposed to it.
Protests hammer Mexican president’s popularity as elections loom
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The popularity of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has sunk amid concerns about his handling of security problems and corruption, polls showed on Monday, in a sign that his ruling party could lose ground in elections next ye…
ICC appeal judges uphold conviction of Congolese warlord Lubanga
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Appeal judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday upheld the conviction of Congolese war criminal Thomas Lubanga and confirmed his 14-year prison sentence, bringing to a close the permanent war crimes court’s first case….
Iran to turn uranium into reactor fuel under extended deal: source
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran will convert more of its higher-grade enriched uranium into reactor fuel under an extended nuclear deal with world powers, making the material less suitable for building atomic bombs, a diplomatic source and a U.S. think-tank sa…
Desperate for cement and bulldozers, Gazans face winter in ruins
GAZA (Reuters) – Three months after the war in Gaza, Sadeeqa Naseer still lives in a bomb site. Air strikes turned the two upper floors of her three-storey apartment building in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun into a rubble-strewn ruin.
UK concerned by Russian testing of its air space
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Monday it was concerned by a sharp increase in Russian military flights close to its borders which it said were designed to test its air defenses.
Namibia’s ruling SWAPO wins presidential election with 86 percent: commission
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party cruised to victory in the 2014 presidential election with Prime Minister Hage Geingob taking 86.73 percent of all declared votes, the southern African country’s electoral commission said on Monday.
Facing Islamic State in Syria, U.S.-trained rebels await more help
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) – Syrian rebel commander Abdulaziz says U.S. military training helped his men kill at least 15 Islamic State fighters in a recent battle near Aleppo. Three months earlier, a similar engagement had gone the other way, with tw…
Iraq says it found 50,000 ‘ghost soldiers’ on payroll
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s new government has discovered 50,000 “ghost soldiers” who received army salaries without showing up for work, a practice which accelerated the military’s collapse in the face of Islamic State fighters six months ago.
U.S. Air Force pilot killed in crash in Middle East: Central Command
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Air force pilot died on Sunday when an aircraft crashed while returning to its base in the Middle East, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Monday.
