Three suicide attacks hit Kurdish town on Syria-Turkey border
AMMAN (Reuters) – Three Islamic State fighters blew themselves up on Monday in Kobani near the Turkish border with Syria, a monitoring group said, with the hardline militants making slight advances inside the besieged Kurdish town.
Berlin and Paris seek reform proposals to avert policy clash
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German and French economy ministers have asked experts in Berlin and Paris to come up with reform recommendations for both countries in an apparent attempt to avert a full-blown clash between the euro zone heavyweights over econo…
Authors see chance for breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations
HAVANA (Reuters) – The authors of a new book detailing 55 years of informal communications between the United States and Cuba see a rare opportunity to normalize relations, provided President Barack Obama wants to seize the moment.
Rousseff puts Cardoso, 83, at core of Brazil’s election battle
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Under pressure in Brazil’s closest election race in decades, President Dilma Rousseff is centering her campaign around a familiar bogeyman – an 83-year-old former president associated with a more turbulent, elitist era.
Sudan’s Popular Congress Party to boycott 2015 election
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – One of Sudan’s main opposition parties will boycott elections set for April because a lack of democracy will not allow a fair vote, a senior party official said on Monday, diminishing the credibility of the ballot.
French tourists avoid Tunisia after traveler’s beheading in nearby Algeria
BERLIN (Reuters) – Tunisia lost about a third of its French tourist bookings to cancellation shortly after the beheading last month of a French traveler by Islamist militants in neighboring Algeria, the country’s tourism minister said on Monday.
More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials.
Cyclone kills 24 in east India, sparks fears of floods
VISAKHAPATNAM India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The death toll from a powerful cyclone which battered India’s eastern coastline rose to 24 on Monday, as the storm weakened and moved inland, leaving a swathe of destruction and triggering fears heavy …
U.N. chief demands Israel scrap East Jerusalem settlement plan
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel on Monday to scrap plans to expand settlements in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of a future state, and urged both sides to return rapidly to peace talks….
Taliban ambush in Afghan north, bombs in capital and elsewhere kill 25
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in a mountainous northern area on Monday, killing 22 soldiers and police, an official said, as bombs in Kabul and another area killed three.
