Central African Republic asks U.N. to tweak arms embargo to aid troops
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Central African Republic interim President Catherine Samba Panza asked the United Nations on Saturday to consider tweaking an arms embargo on the landlocked state so its security forces could be properly equipped to work alon…
Islamic State defies air strikes by shelling Syrian Kurdish town
BEIRUT/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) – New U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters failed to stop them from pressing their assault on a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border on Saturday, hitting it with shell fire for the first time….
Libya: Send us more arms or face wider terrorism threat
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Libya on Saturday asked the world either to give it more weapons and other support to help restore security and rebuild its institutions or to declare outright that the conflict-torn North African state “must face terrorism a…
Russia at U.N. accuses U.S., allies of bossing world around
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia used its annual appearance at the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to accuse the United States and its Western allies of bossing the world around, complaining they were attempting to dictate to everyone “what is good …
Egypt postpones verdict in case against ex-president Mubarak
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court postponed to Nov. 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule.
Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen say fire rocket toward U.S. embassy
SANAA (Reuters) – An al Qaeda splinter group said it launched a rocket toward the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, wounding several guards, to retaliate for a purported U.S. drone strike in a northern province of Yemen the day before.
Candidate for top EU post stumbles into trade minefield
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s trade commissioner-designate stumbled into a political minefield on Saturday by suggesting she wanted to exclude a controversial investor protection clause from a planned EU-U.S. trade agreement.
Afghan villagers hang Taliban fighters as battle for district rages
GHAZNI Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan villagers hanged four captured Taliban militants from a tree on Saturday as security forces battled the insurgents for a sixth day in a district of Ghazni province, an official said.
Cash-poor Afghanistan will delay paying civil servants: finance ministry official
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan will delay paying salaries to hundreds of thousands of civil servants next month because it does not have enough money, a finance ministry official said on Saturday.
Exclusive: Rohingya could face detention under Myanmar draft plan
YANGON/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Myanmar’s national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be …
