France warns Palestinians over escalating crisis with U.N. bid
PARIS (Reuters) – France warned the Palestinians on Tuesday against escalating a diplomatic battle with Israel after President Mahmoud Abbas said he would resubmit to the U.N. Security Council a resolution calling for the creation of a Palestinian stat…
Syria’s neighbors need more help to cope with refugee crisis: U.N.
ANKARA (Reuters) – Countries around the world must do more to help Syria’s neighbors cope with the millions of people who have fled the civil war, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.
Nigerian governors facing Boko Haram request more troops before election
ABUJA (Reuters) – Facing an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency, governors from three states in northeast Nigeria asked President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to deploy extra troops to secure their regions before next month’s presidential election…
France to send aircraft carrier for exercises in Indian Ocean
PARIS (Reuters) – France is sending its aircraft carrier to the Indian Ocean for naval exercises, a defense ministry source said on Tuesday, adding that the ship was ready for military operations if needed.
Doctors block Belgian murderer’s euthanasia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Doctors in Belgium have rejected an imprisoned murderer and rapist’s request for medically assisted suicide, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, less than a week before he was due to receive a lethal injection.
Libya pays heavy economic price as fighting takes toll
CAIRO (Reuters) – The central bank is burning through its foreign reserves and many government services are being cut as Libya reels under the effects of a collapse in oil revenues caused by factional fighting that threatens to tear the country apart.
North Korea boosted ‘cyber forces’ to 6,000 troops, South says
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean military’s “cyber army” has boosted its numbers to 6,000 troops, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, double Seoul’s estimate for the force in 2013, and is working to cause “physical and psychological paraly…
West’s Islamic State focus neglects human tragedy in Syria, doctors say
PARIS (Reuters) – Western states are focusing too much on tackling Islamic State and are forgetting the daily suffering of ordinary Syrians in areas of the country where the medical situation has become catastrophic, a group of Syrian doctors said.
Turkish vessel to continue work off Cyprus, deepening standoff
NICOSIA (Reuters) – A Turkish research vessel will continue searching for oil and gas off Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot authorities said on Tuesday, extending a simmering standoff between rival sides on the ethnically-split island over offshore gas reserves….
U.S.-led forces conduct 10 air strikes in Syria, two in Iraq: military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces conducted 10 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, mostly targeting the contested city of Kobani, and two strikes in Iraq since Monday, the U.S. military said.
