Libya parliament allies with renegade general, struggles to assert authority
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s beleaguered elected parliament has declared a formal alliance with a renegade former general, as it struggles to assert some authority in a country many fear is sliding into outright civil war.
Turkey to let Iraqi Kurds reinforce Kobani as U.S. drops arms to defenders
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey said on Monday it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey’s border, and the United States air-dropped arms to help the Kurds there resist an Islamic State assa…
Brazil election poll shows Rousseff gains ground against Neves
BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff has gained some ground, but remains locked in a fierce battle for votes with rival Aecio Neves ahead of the Oct. 26 runoff to Brazil’s presidential election, a new poll showed on Monday.
U.S. drone crashes on landing at airport in Niamey: Niger sources
NIAMEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An unarmed U.S. Reaper drone crashed on landing at the main airport in the capital of Niger on Monday, damaging the runway but causing no injuries, airport sources in Niger and the U.S. Air Force said.
Polish ex-minister quoted saying Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves.
Kenyan military kill five militants, seize TNT explosives
MOMBASA (Reuters) – Kenyan soldiers have killed five suspected al Shabaab militants near the border with Ethiopia and recovered a vehicle packed with explosives, preventing a potentially huge attack, a defense spokesman said on Monday.
Israelis quietly expand enclave in Palestinian district of Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli guards quietly occupied two purchased residential buildings in a Palestinian district of East Jerusalem on Monday, expanding a Jewish settler project in defiance of U.S. criticism.
Al Qaeda attacks kill at least 33 people in Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) – At least 33 people were killed in a suicide bombing and gun attacks in central Yemen, tribal sources and medics said on Monday, as al Qaeda fighters seized a Yemeni city in a new challenge to the central government.
U.N. questions Israel on Palestinians’ rights
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. experts questioned Israeli officials on Monday over alleged rights abuses ranging from the demolition of Palestinian houses and the expansion of Jewish settlements to limited Palestinian access to water and their farmland.
Swedish ‘Cold War’ thriller exposes Baltic Sea nerves over Russia
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – It has all the makings of a Cold War thriller — an emergency military deployment with stealth ships and helicopters hunting for a foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago. Grainy photographs of a mysterious vessel. Sighting…
