Exclsuive: Kazakhstan balanced between Ukraine and post-NATO Afghanistan
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Looking at the neighborhood around Kazakhstan on a spinning globe, the Central Asian nation’s foreign minister sees both partnerships and peril in the form of the Russian-Ukraine crisis and the coming NATO pullout from Afghanistan …
Russia will add 80 new warships to Black Sea Fleet: fleet commander
NOVOROSSIYSK Russia (Reuters) – Russia will increase its Black Sea fleet with more than 80 new warships by 2020 and will complete a second naval base for the fleet near the city of Novorossiysk by 2016, its commander said on Tuesday.
Pope calls for global cooperation on migration crisis
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis called on Tuesday for countries to join forces to help the rising number of migrants, thousands of whom have died this year on perilous journeys to flee poverty and war.
Valls says France would never ask Germany to solve its problems
BERLIN (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls sought to reassure Berlin on Tuesday that his country was making progress on economic reforms and would not ask Germany to solve its problems.
Nepal war-time rape victims suffer in fear, need justice: HRW
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eight years after Nepal’s civil war ended, hundreds of victims of war-time rape still live in fear with no access to justice, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
Drone crashes in south Yemen: witnesses
ADEN (Reuters) – A drone similar those used by the United States to track down and attack suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen crashed in the southern part of the country on Tuesday, witnesses and a local official said.
Algeria hunts for kidnapped Frenchman, Paris says no deals
AIT OUABANE Algeria/PARIS (Reuters) – Algerian military and police set up checkpoints and sent troops into mountains east of Algiers on Tuesday to look for a Frenchman kidnapped by militants who threatened to execute him over France’s intervention in I…
Fighting, payment problems disrupt Libya’s food imports
TOBRUK/LONDON (Reuters) – Food prices have risen in Libya as payments problems, fighting and a breakdown in authority disrupt the usual import routes as the country spins out of control three years after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.
Turkey allows girls as young as 10 to cover hair at schools
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey has lifted a ban on the Islamic-style headscarf in schools, allowing girls from the fifth grade and up to cover their hair in a further easing of generations-old restrictions on the public expression of faith.
Chinese and Indian troops in Himalayan standoff
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Hundreds of Indian and Chinese troops have dug into positions on a high Himalayan plateau, leading India’s army chief to cancel a foreign trip and monitor a standoff that underscores deep differences between the Asian gia…
