Myanmar says plight of Rohingya minority a media fabrication
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar President Thein Sein has denied that minority Muslim Rohingya are fleeing “torture” in western Rakhine state, telling the Voice of America Burmese Service such media reports were fabrication.
Militants could have drawn Lebanon into civil war: army chief
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist militants who attacked parts of Lebanon this year could have drawn it into civil war, army chief General Jean Kahwaji said in an unusually direct and political speech published on Friday.
Zimbabwe stadium church service stampede kills 11: police
HARARE (Reuters) – Eleven people were killed and dozens injured in a stampede at a stadium in Zimbabwe, as thousands of people at a church service tried to leave through the same exit, police said on Friday.
Jihadi wave tests Tunisia’s young democracy
SOUSSE Tunisia (Reuters) – Tunisians were used to seeing Nidhal Selmi belting around a stadium, proudly sporting his country’s red and white colors as a defender on the national football squad.
Nigerian village buries 45 after Boko Haram ‘slaughter’
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – At least 45 people were killed in a Boko Haram reprisal attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, the epicenter of the Islamists’ five-year insurgency, the head of the local government and a military source said on Friday.
Morocco says Burkina Faso’s Compaore to stay for limited period
RABAT (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore, who was toppled in a popular uprising last month, will stay in Morocco for a limited period after fleeing his country, the Moroccan government said on Friday.
Israel rejects EU states’ appeal over razing militant homes
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has rejected an appeal by the five biggest members of the European Union not to raze the homes of Palestinians who carried out lethal attacks in Jerusalem, saying on Friday that the tactic was designed to deter further viol…
Militants launch attacks around Iraq’s western Ramadi city
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Suspected Islamic State militants launched coordinated attacks on Friday around the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, overrunning a village to the east and clashing with tribal fighters to the west, a local official and a tribal leader …
Egypt closes schools in Sinai towns as area inches toward open war
ISMAILIA Egypt (Reuters) – Egypt has indefinitely shut schools in two border towns in northern Sinai as the army prepares to intensify a battle with Islamist militants that turned the daily trip to lessons into a “journey of death”.
Mongolia gets new prime minister as economy slumps
ULAN BATOR (Reuters) – Mongolia’s parliament has appointed Chimed Saikhanbileg as prime minister, it said on Friday, more than two weeks after it ousted his predecessor for failing to get to grips with a slumping economy and foreign investment.
