Islamic State says it has beheaded second Japanese hostage Goto
TOKYO (Reuters) – Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, journalist Kenji Goto, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to vow to step up humanitarian aid to the group’s opponents in the Middle East and help bring his kil…
U.S., allies conduct 34 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies have carried out 26 air strikes in Iraq and eight in Syria since Saturday in continued attacks on Islamic State targets, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
Mali armed groups clash near Timbuktu: security sources
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian rebels fought pro-government militia in the northern village of Kano overnight, three security sources said, firing rockets and briefly kidnapping at least 20 people in the latest spike of violence between armed groups.
Kurdish forces free oil workers at Kirkuk crude station: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday found and freed workers who had gone missing a day earlier when Islamic State insurgents seized a small crude oil station near the northern city of Kirkuk, the provincial governor and a provincial coun…
Greek turmoil an unexpected boon for German AfD eurosceptics
BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) – The new Greek government’s anti-bailout stance has sent shudders through much of Europe but Germany’s euroskeptic AfD party can hardly believe its good fortune ahead of a regional election as a breakup of the euro zone sudde…
Suicide bomber kills 10 people in northeast Nigeria’s Potiskum
BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the house of a legislator in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, killing 10 people, two security sources told Reuters.
Syria aims to ‘flush out all terrorists’ in 2015: PM
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s prime minister said on Sunday the country wanted to drive all insurgents out of its territory in 2015 and was prepared to back any attempts to fight global militancy.
Sudan rebels free Bulgarian aid workers: ministry
SOFIA (Reuters) – Six Bulgarian U.N. aid workers who were detained by rebels in Sudan’s strife-torn South Kordofan region have been released, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said on Sunday.
Right-wing firebrand shakes up cosy Swiss politics
MAENNEDORF, Switzerland (Reuters) – As a child growing up near the Swiss border with Germany in the early 1940s, Christoph Blocher remembers soldiers camping out in his family’s garden, ready to defend the neutral nation against a surprise attack from …
A week in and Greece’s new leftist PM sticks to tough line, for now
ATHENS (Reuters) – Judging from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ first week in office, Greece’s new leftist government is determined to take the hard-line, anti-bailout stance that international investors and European leaders had feared.
