Protesters clash with Pakistan police near French consulate
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan police fired tear gas and water cannon at about 200 protesters outside the French consulate in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday when a demonstration against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo t…
Kerry, Iran’s Zarif meet again in Paris to narrow nuclear gaps
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian counterpart Mohammad Jawad Zarif met in Paris on Friday to try to narrow gaps over Iran’s nuclear program, their second session in three days with broader negotiations due to resume soon….
Turkish PM says Israeli ‘provocations’ radicalising Muslim world
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of terrorism and said Israeli “provocations” such as the bombardment of Gaza were contributing to radicalisation in the Muslim worl…
Paris police arrest 12 linked to shootings, Kerry visits sites
PARIS (Reuters) – French police arrested 12 people on Friday suspected of helping militant Islamist gunmen in last week’s killings in Paris, where visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid wreaths at two main attack sites.
U.S., UK agree sanctions to remain on Russia: Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to keep sanctions on Russia until it stops its aggression in Ukraine, Obama told a press conference on Friday.
Fighting rages at airport, new Ukraine peace talks elusive
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting raged at the international airport in the big Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday as a fresh attempt to resume peace talks to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine failed.
U.N.’s Ban Ki-moon worried by El Salvador violence as murders soar
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday he was concerned by violence in Central America and El Salvador, where there has been a sharp spike in murders and police assassinations over the last year.
German police tipped off that Islamists may target rail stations
BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities have received specific warnings of the risk of militant attacks on central railway stations in Berlin and Dresden, security sources told Reuters on Friday, after pre-dawn police raids on 12 homes linked to radical …
Bomb razes opposition building in Nigeria’s Rivers state, no one hurt-police
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) – Unknown assailants threw dynamite at an opposition coalition secretariat in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Friday, destroying the building but not claiming any casualties, police and party officials said.
Turkish PM expects extradition request for U.S.-based cleric Gulen
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday he expected a request to be made to the U.S. authorities for the extradition of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of leading a plot to seize pow…
