Hamas denies leader has been expelled from Qatar
DOHA (Reuters) – Militant group Hamas on Tuesday denied reports that its leader Khaled Meshaal has been expelled from Qatar.
Gambia’s Jammeh reshuffles cabinet after coup attempt
BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh reshuffled three major posts in his government, state television reported, a week after a failed coup attempt in the West Africa nation.
Libya’s official government bans Palestinians, Syrians and Sudanese from entry
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s official government has banned Palestinians, Syrians and Sudanese from entry because their countries are undermining the oil producing nation’s security, the interior minister said.
Pakistan’s parliament votes for military courts to try insurgents
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament on Tuesday passed legislation allowing military courts to try insurgents, one of a raft of measures aimed at clamping down on increasingly brutal attacks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 children last month…
Israeli nationalist leader in spotlight over 1996 Lebanon attack
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Naftali Bennett, leader of an ultra-nationalist Israeli party and a potential future defense minister, is in the spotlight over his indirect role in an army shelling attack that killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians nearly two d…
Thai PM urges action on human trafficking as U.S. deadline looms
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday his government would step up measures against human trafficking as the country scrambles to improve its record in fighting the illegal trade before a U.S. deadline to show improv…
Myanmar’s new Catholic cardinal warns against religious extremism
YANGON (Reuters) – Religious extremism could derail Myanmar’s much-vaunted reform process, the Buddhist-majority country’s first Catholic cardinal, Charles Maung Bo, said on Tuesday.
Echoing Erdogan, Turkish PM brands graft scandal a ‘coup attempt’
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said corruption allegations against four former ministers were part of a “coup attempt”, denying on Tuesday that the government had put pressure on a parliamentary commission not to send them to…
Islamic State ‘police’ official beheaded: Syria monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A top figure in Islamic State’s self-declared police force, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said.
Two Egyptian police shot dead outside Coptic Church south of Cairo
MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) – Two Egyptian policemen were shot dead on Tuesday as they stood guard at a Coptic Christian church in a city south of Cairo, witnesses and a local security source said.
