Regional leaders step up Boko Haram fight with troops, command center
Niamey (Reuters) – Leaders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Benin on Tuesday announced plans to step up the fight against Boko Haram with an additional battalion and a command center to tackle the militants whose insurgency has spread beyond Nigeria, a stat…
Turkey says Syria town about to fall as Islamic State advances
MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey’s president said the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was “about to fall” on Tuesday as Islamic State fighters pressed home a three-week assault that has cost a reported 400 lives and forced thousands to flee t…
Mexican students recall clashes with police as massacre probed
AYOTZINAPA Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican police killed three trainee teachers, shot another in the head and another in the face, and herded dozens more into police trucks to what investigators fear was a massacre on a remote hillside, survivors of the inc…
Senegalese peacekeeper killed in rocket attack on northern Mali base
BAMAKO (Reuters) – A Senegalese United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Tuesday when a joint French-U.N. military camp in the northern Malian town of Kidal was hit by rocket fire, the U.N. mission and Senegal’s state television said.
Old soldiers to meet as Thai PM makes Myanmar his first foreign visit
BANGKOK (Reuters) – When retired general Prayuth Chan-ocha lands in Myanmar on Thursday, his first overseas trip as Thailand’s new prime minister, he can expect a little love and a lot of understanding.
Modi’s Indian welfare reforms may need to be bigger and bolder
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Kamla Rani, a 50-year-old housewife living in a run-down area of New Delhi, baulks at the idea of having heavily subsidized food benefits replaced by money deposited in a bank account.
Indonesian president-elect’s principles could derail his reforms
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Two weeks before he is due to take office, Indonesia’s president-elect is refusing to compromise his principles by building support in parliament in exchange for plum jobs.
CN Rail train derails in Saskatchewan; two cars of distillate burn
CALGARY Alberta (Reuters) – A freight train derailed in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Tuesday, setting two cars carrying petroleum distillate on fire, Canadian National Railway Co said.
Britain arrests four men in operation against Islamist militants
LONDON (Reuters) – British anti-terrorism police arrested four men in their early 20s in London on Tuesday as part of an investigation into Islamist-related militancy, police said in a statement.
Mexico’s president vows to find miscreants responsible for massacre
CHILPANCINGO Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto vowed on Monday to hunt down those responsible for the apparent massacre of dozens of students in the southwest of the country that authorities say involved local security officials.
