West African leaders mull new force to fight Boko Haram insurgents
ACCRA (Reuters) – West African leaders will seek authority next week from the African Union to create a multi-national force to fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist insurgents, Ghanaian President John Mahama told Reuters on Friday.
Obama, Cameron vow to take on ‘poisonous ideology’ of radical Islam
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed on Friday to take on “the poisonous ideology” of Islamic extremists and said intelligence agencies must be allowed to track militants online despite priva…
Pope heads south to comfort Typhoon Haiyan survivors
MANILA (Reuters) – Pope Francis travels to the central Philippines city of Tacloban on Saturday to pray for the dead and comfort the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the country’s worst natural disaster, which killed 6,300 people a little over a year ago.
Four killed in Niger anti-French riots, protests held in Pakistan, Algeria
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Four people were killed in protests turned violent in Niger on Friday, after French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published more cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammad a week after Islamist gunmen shot dead 12 people at its office…
U.S. troops for Syria training mission seen moving to region soon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several hundred U.S. military trainers will begin moving to the Middle East in the next four to six weeks amid efforts to start training this spring for moderate Syrian opposition forces who will battle Islamic State fighters, th…
Libya parties agree to more talks; two factions call ceasefire
TRIPOLI, Reuters – Libyan factions vying for control of the country have agreed to continue United Nations-backed talks in Geneva next week over ending the political crisis, although one main group has so far refused to participate.
Protesters clash with Pakistan police near French consulate
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan police fired tear gas and water cannon at about 200 protesters outside the French consulate in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday when a demonstration against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo t…
Kerry, Iran’s Zarif meet again in Paris to narrow nuclear gaps
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian counterpart Mohammad Jawad Zarif met in Paris on Friday to try to narrow gaps over Iran’s nuclear program, their second session in three days with broader negotiations due to resume soon….
Turkish PM says Israeli ‘provocations’ radicalising Muslim world
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of terrorism and said Israeli “provocations” such as the bombardment of Gaza were contributing to radicalisation in the Muslim worl…
Paris police arrest 12 linked to shootings, Kerry visits sites
PARIS (Reuters) – French police arrested 12 people on Friday suspected of helping militant Islamist gunmen in last week’s killings in Paris, where visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid wreaths at two main attack sites.
