Pakistani Islamists use floods to turn opinion against India
MULTAN Pakistan (Reuters) – Hafiz Saeed, widely considered one of South Asia’s most dangerous militants, has no doubt who is to blame for devastating floods that have submerged swathes of Pakistani countryside and claimed hundreds of lives.
Iraqi official briefs Syria’s Assad on efforts against Islamic State
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraq’s national security adviser briefed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on efforts to counter Islamic State on Tuesday, in the first such meeting since the United States launched air strikes on the radical group in Iraq.
Scottish support for independence at 48 percent, ICM poll shows
LONDON (Reuters) – Support for independence in Scotland has risen three percentage points to 48 percent, an ICM poll for the Scotsman newspaper showed on Tuesday, two days before a referendum on whether Scotland should split from the United Kingdom.
Turkish reluctance hurts U.S. plans for coalition against Islamic State
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – When Washington takes its bombing campaign against Islamic State fighters into Syria, the most it can probably hope for from one of its closest allies in the region will be grudging consent.
67 South Africans died in Lagos church collapse: Zuma
LAGOS (Reuters) – Sixty-seven South Africans died and scores were injured in the collapse of a building in the compound of a Lagos Pentecostal church last week, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
U.N. Security Council eyes action to heighten Ebola response
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council could adopt a resolution later this week to expand the global response to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa by calling on countries to lift travel restrictions and provide urgent ass…
Israel says mortar fired from Gaza in first since August 26 truce
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Israel said a mortar bomb was fired at it from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the first such attack since a seven-week war in the enclave ended on Aug 26, but Hamas said Palestinians remained committed to the truce.
Suicide car bomber kills three foreign troops in Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber killed two U.S. troops and a Polish soldier in an attack on a convoy near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, the NATO-led coalition said, one of the worst attacks on international forces in the Afghan capital i…
U.S. Congress pushes ahead with bid to arm Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation on Tuesday to authorize President Barack Obama’s plan to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants, and lawmakers said the measure would lik…
Ukraine ratifies EU deal, offers special status to rebels
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine ratified a sweeping agreement with the European Union on Tuesday – an issue at the heart of the Russia-West crisis over its future – and sought to blunt the independence drive of Russian-backed separatists by offering them temp…
