Fighting flares up in South Sudan after rains recede
JUBA (Reuters) – Government troops and South Sudanese rebels have been fighting for more than a week in a remote northern region of the country, a United Nations official said on Thursday, in the worst clashes since the rainy season receded in recent w…
Kenyan military plane crashes in Somalia, rebels say shot down
NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A Kenyan warplane crashed in southern Somalia on Thursday, with the Kenyan military saying the crash was due to technical problems while Somali rebels said they had shot it down with a missile.
More air strikes near Tripoli in struggle between Libya’s rival groups
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Forces allied to one of two rival governments vying for power in Libya launched an air strike near Tripoli on Thursday, officials and residents said, in a struggle that began when one group seized the capital in August and set up it…
U.S. disclosed failed attempt to rescue American in Yemen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday disclosed a failed attempt last month to rescue a U.S. citizen held hostage by al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, saying he was not present at the targeted location but that other hostages were freed.
U.N. food aid halt pushing more Syrian refugee girls to early marriage
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The halt in U.N. food supplies to 1.7 million Syrian refugees makes it more likely that refugee children will be forced to go to work or marry early to help their families survive, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF…
Expelled U.S. rights official returns to Bahrain
MANAMA (Reuters) – A senior American official returned to Bahrain on Thursday after the kingdom expelled him for meeting with an opposition leader, a rare public row between the United States and its strategic Gulf ally.
Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia; ruble falls
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for becoming strong, but said his country would rise to any challenge.
At least 20 killed in fighting in Russia’s Chechnya
GROZNY/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a police post and stormed a building on Thursday in Grozny, capital of Russia’s southern province of Chechnya, killing 10 policemen in clashes in which 10 of the attackers were also killed.
Swedish far-right makes big gamble to shed pariah status
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s far-right is gambling its political future in pitching the country into snap elections, calculating disaffection with established parties and fears over immigration can further its meteoric rise from a pariah-like obscuri…
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe purges ‘treacherous’ deputy once seen as successor
HARARE (Reuters) – Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe purged the deputy seen just months ago as his most likely successor, denouncing her before party loyalists as leader of a “treacherous cabal” bent on removing him from power.
