Islamic State cedes little ground despite air attacks
BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) – They have made enemies across the globe and endured three months of U.S.-led air strikes, but Islamic State fighters have surrendered little of their self-declared caliphate to the broad sweep of forces arrayed against them.
France begins withdrawing Central Africa troops as U.N. deploys
PARIS (Reuters) – France is withdrawing troops from Central African Republic as a United Nations peacekeeping force nears its full deployment, but will keep a presence to support the U.N. with a rapid reaction force, officials and diplomats said.
Afghan soldier who killed U.S. general acted independently: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Afghan military policeman who fatally shot a U.S. general and wounded more than a dozen other people at a training center in Kabul apparently acted independently and had no links to the Taliban or other extremist groups, accor…
EU’s Juncker says South Stream pipeline can still be built
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The South Stream gas pipeline can go ahead even though Russia said it had scrapped the $40 billion project to pump gas to the European Union, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday.
Chief suspect in Thai graft probe is princess’s uncle: police
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police said on Thursday the chief suspect in a high-profile corruption scandal is the uncle of Princess Srirasmi, who is married to Thailand’s heir apparent, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn.
‘Victory’ as Kenya police jail child rapists after court order
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two men have been jailed for gang raping children after Kenya’s high court ordered the police to re-open 10 cases where officers had yelled at, demanded bribes from and even locked up girls who tried to report rap…
UAE police arrest woman on suspicion of killing U.S. teacher
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates (UAE) police have arrested a UAE woman suspected of killing of an American teacher found stabbed to death in a toilet at an Abu Dhabi shopping mall, police said on Thursday.
Vatican finds hundreds of millions of euros ‘tucked away’: cardinal
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican’s economy minister has said hundreds of millions of euros were found “tucked away” in accounts of various Holy See departments without having appeared in the city-state’s balance sheets.
While diplomats fret, Burkina backs military to drive reform agenda
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – When Colonel Isaac Zida swapped his military fatigues for a blue suit to chair his first cabinet meeting as prime minister of Burkina Faso, his intended audience may have been the West and its African allies.
British Conservative lawmaker arrested on suspicion of rape
LONDON (Reuters) – Mark Pritchard, a British lawmaker from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party, has been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to official parliamentary records and police.
