Suspected Islamists abduct 40 people in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Gunmen abducted 40 boys and young men from a remote village in northeast Nigeria in a raid that residents and a security source blamed on Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has gained worldwide notoriety for mass kidnappings.
Egyptian troops kill Palestinian youth infiltrating from Gaza: sources
GAZA (Reuters) – Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross illegally from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.
Gambia arrests suspects after attempted coup: rights groups
BANJUL (Reuters) – Security forces in Gambia have begun arresting people suspected of having links to an attempted coup this week, sources in the country and international human rights groups said on Friday.
Gambia arrests suspects after attempted coup: rights groups
BANJUL (Reuters) – Security forces in Gambia have begun arresting people suspected of having links to an attempted coup this week, sources in the country and international human rights groups said on Friday.
U.N. extends mandate of tribunal trying Hariri bomb suspects
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday extended for three years the mandate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was set up to investigate and try suspects in a 2005 bomb blast that killed Lebanese statesman Rafik…
Burnt-out ferry towed to Italy after deadly blaze
BRINDISI, Italy (Reuters) – Tug boats hauled the burnt-out hulk of a ferry that caught fire off the coast of Greece into a southern Italian port on Friday, opening the way for an investigation into the blaze that killed at least 11 people.
Two jailed Al Jazeera journalists seek presidential deportation from Egypt
SYDNEY/CAIRO (Reuters) – Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country’s highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped.
Gunmen kill three Sunni clerics near Iraq’s Basra
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an urgent investigation on Friday into the fatal shooting of three Sunni clerics and the wounding of two others near the southern city of Basra.
Herders with machine guns intensify South Sudan land, food woes
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tensions are rising in South Sudan as displaced pastoralists migrate onto lands occupied by farming communities, stoking a new series of conflicts in the war-torn nation and threatening food supplies, a United Nation…
At least seven killed in al Shabaab attack at Somali military base
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalian al Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the outskirts of the town of Baidoa on Friday morning, killing at least seven soldiers, a Somali military official said.
