Polls show Scottish opponents of independence with slight lead ahead of vote
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Scottish supporters of staying in the United Kingdom are 4 percentage points ahead of secessionists with just a day to go before Scots vote in an independence referendum, three different opinion polls showed.
U.S. general says cannot rule out larger ground role in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The most senior U.S. military officer raised the possibility on Tuesday that American troops might need to take on a larger role in Iraq’s ground war against Islamic State militants, but the White House stressed they would not de…
Nine killed, 30 wounded in new clashes in Libya’s Benghazi: medic
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Heavy clashes broke out on Tuesday between a former Libyan general’s forces and Islamist fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least nine people, medics said.
Saudi court sentences two to death, jails 13 over attack
DOHA (Reuters) – A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced two men to death and 13 others to long prison terms after they were accused of killing a policeman and three civilians and forming an al Qaeda cell in prison, the kingdom’s state news agency (SPA) said…
India and China look to put knotty relations on new footing
AHMEDABAD India (Reuters) – The electricity board in this Indian city has been instructed to avoid any power cuts and officials have been told to have their shoes polished and their shirts tucked in: Nothing has been left to chance for this week’s visi…
Pakistani Islamists use floods to turn opinion against India
MULTAN Pakistan (Reuters) – Hafiz Saeed, widely considered one of South Asia’s most dangerous militants, has no doubt who is to blame for devastating floods that have submerged swathes of Pakistani countryside and claimed hundreds of lives.
Iraqi official briefs Syria’s Assad on efforts against Islamic State
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraq’s national security adviser briefed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on efforts to counter Islamic State on Tuesday, in the first such meeting since the United States launched air strikes on the radical group in Iraq.
Scottish support for independence at 48 percent, ICM poll shows
LONDON (Reuters) – Support for independence in Scotland has risen three percentage points to 48 percent, an ICM poll for the Scotsman newspaper showed on Tuesday, two days before a referendum on whether Scotland should split from the United Kingdom.
Turkish reluctance hurts U.S. plans for coalition against Islamic State
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – When Washington takes its bombing campaign against Islamic State fighters into Syria, the most it can probably hope for from one of its closest allies in the region will be grudging consent.
67 South Africans died in Lagos church collapse: Zuma
LAGOS (Reuters) – Sixty-seven South Africans died and scores were injured in the collapse of a building in the compound of a Lagos Pentecostal church last week, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
