Colombia to intensify battle against smuggling
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The battle against contraband is set to become a focal point for Colombia’s armed forces as the risk to the economy and security matches the dangers of drug trafficking to the Andean nation, the head of the fiscal police said.
Indonesia president submits new cabinet list for anti-graft review
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo submitted a revised list of cabinet ministers to the country’s anti-graft agency on Thursday, in the hope that his new ministerial team will be considered free of corruption.
UK policeman arrested after ammunition found at Buckingham Palace
LONDON (Reuters) – A police officer was arrested on Thursday as part of an investigation into the discovery of ammunition in personal lockers in a police building on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, Scotland Yard said.
Russian prosecutors detain more suspects in Total CEO plane crash
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors detained four Moscow airport workers and denied bail to the driver of a snow plough which hit a private jet killing the CEO of French oil company Total earlier this week, officials said on Thursday.
Suspected Boko Haram fighters kidnap 25 girls in northeast Nigeria
YOLA/ABUJA (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses said, despite talks on freeing over 200 other female hostages they seized in April.
Families of executed French monks say Algiers obstructing justice
PARIS (Reuters) – The families of seven French Trappist monks killed in Algeria during Islamist-linked violence in 1996 accused Algiers of obstructionism on Thursday in refusing to send samples of their remains to Paris where they could be further test…
Turkey’s U.S. relations show strain as Washington’s patience wears thin
ANKARA (Reuters) – The U.S. decision to air-drop weapons to Kurdish forces in Syria on the same day Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dismissed them as terrorists is the latest false note in the increasingly discordant mood music coming out of Washingto…
Don’t prejudge Egypt’s new draft NGO law, says minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s minister of social solidarity has urged civil society groups not to prejudge a new draft law for non-government organizations (NGOs), which they fear will roll back freedoms won in the 2011 uprising and could threaten their ex…
Italy deputy speaker favorite as new foreign minister: sources
ROME (Reuters) – The deputy speaker of Italy’s lower house of parliament is the leading candidate to replace Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini when she moves to Brussels to become the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, two poli…
India’s Modi announces relief package for flood-hit Kashmir
SRINAGAR India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a 7.5 billion rupee ($120 million) relief package for flood-hit Kashmir as his Bharatiya Janata Party seeks to expand support beyond the mainly Hindu lowlands of Jammu…
