Sweden ends job-seeker program accused of recruiting militants
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The Swedish government is shutting down a job coaching program for new immigrants after complaints that it was being used to recruit people for militant groups, a state official said on Friday.
U.N. investigators to publish Syria war crimes suspect names
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations war crimes investigators plan to publish names of suspects involved in Syria’s four-year war and push for new ways to bring them to account, in a radical change of strategy announced on Friday.
Suicide attack targets Somali officials in hotel, kills 10 people
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist rebels detonated a car bomb near a hotel in the Somali capital on Friday and then set off another bomb inside where politicians had gathered, killing at least 10 people including a lawmaker and lightly wounding two minist…
Boko Haram fighters kill 21 people near Nigeria’s Chibok
BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants fleeing a Nigerian army offensive killed 21 people on Friday in attacks near the village of Chibok, close to where the rebels abducted more than 200 schoolgirls last year, a military source said.
In camps, Nigerian refugees fear for family left to Boko Haram
MINAWAO, Cameroon (Reuters) – Whenever Emmanuel Ali Talka hears news of a female suicide bombing in Nigeria, he is paralyzed with fear despite having found relative safety in neighboring Cameroon.
Georgia mustn’t use justice system to settle scores: Europe rights body
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgian authorities should not use the justice system to settle political scores with the former government of Mikheil Saakashvili, a European rights body said on Friday.
Iran has stopped questionable nuclear centrifuge testing: IAEA
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has refrained from expanding tests of more efficient models of a machine used to refine uranium under a nuclear agreement with six world powers, a U.N. report shows, allaying concerns it might be violating the accord.
Iran nuclear talks to continue in Geneva on Feb 22: EU
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Representatives of Iran, Britain, the United States, Russia, China, France and Germany will hold talks in Geneva on Feb. 22 to seek a solution to Iran’s nuclear program, the European Union’s External Action Service (EEAS) said in a…
Options narrow for Ukraine’s Poroshenko after Debaltseve defeat
KIEV (Reuters) – The loss of the key town of Debaltseve to Russian-backed separatists, the latest in a string of big battlefield defeats for Ukraine, narrows the options for President Poroshenko in his dealings both with Moscow and with the West.
Bomb threat grounds Swiss aircraft in Zurich: airport
ZURICH (Reuters) – A bomb threat was made on Friday against an aircraft operated by Lufthansa’s Swiss at Zurich airport, a spokesman for the airport said.
