Ukrainians to pull back big guns from front line with separatists
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Monday it was pulling back artillery and heavy armor from the front line with separatists, backing President Petro Poroshenko’s peace plan for a conflict that has cost more than 3,000 lives.
Valls tells Germans France isn’t EU’s ‘sick child’
BERLIN (Reuters) – France’s Manuel Valls used his first visit to Berlin as prime minister on Monday to try to convince Germany his government is serious about making its economy more competitive, declaring that France “is not the sick child of Europe”….
Accidental blast at Libya army base kills 11 – source
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed by an accidental blast at a Libyan military base in the eastern city of Al Bayda, a security source said on Monday.
Ivory Coast deal may seal Ouattara’s reelection, fuel uncertainty
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – An endorsement from Ivory Coast’s influential former leader Henri Konan Bedie has cleared President Alassane Ouattara’s path to reelection next year but fuels uncertainty over the booming nation’s longer-term future.
Thousands of Hong Kong students ‘grasp destiny’ in demand for democracy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of students braved sweltering heat in Hong Kong on Monday to demand greater democracy as they launched a week-long boycott of classes, underscoring a restive younger generation’s determination to challenge the Chinese Co…
Eyeing 2015 vote, Britain’s Labour says it can be trusted to revive the economy
MANCHESTER England (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour party promised on Monday to keep a firm grip on spending if it wins next year’s election, seeking to persuade voters with tough budget talk that the recovering economy will be safe in its hands…
Israel’s Mossad takes hunt for foreign spies and informants online
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – It is already common for intelligence agencies to recruit their officers online, but Israel’s Mossad has gone one further by touting for local agents and informants too.
South Africa says toll in Nigeria church collapse rises to 115
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from the collapse of a church guesthouse in Lagos has risen to 115, South African government minister Jeff Radebe said on Monday, urging the heavily criticized Nigerian government to investigate the “tragedy”.
Minds focused by IS, Saudis and Iranians think about making up
DUBAI (Reuters) – For decades the opposing poles of Middle East power politics, Saudi Arabia and Iran may be driven to set aside at least some of their differences by the rise of a mutual enemy: Islamic State.
Kurds say they have halted Islamic State advance on Syrian town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State fighters to the east of a predominantly Kurdish town near the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the main armed Kurdish group said.
