Israel allows transit of Gaza produce to West Bank
GAZA (Reuters) – Israel on Thursday allowed Palestinian farmers to ship produce from the blockaded Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank, via Israeli territory, for the first time since 2007.
U.S. denies telling Yemen ex-president to leave or face sanctions
SANAA (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday denied delivering any threats to Ali Abdullah Saleh over what Washington suspects is his role in destabilizing Yemen.
India to appoint new defense minister in cabinet expansion
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will appoint a new defense minister, a senior party official and another source told Reuters on Thursday, in a move that would allow the current minister, Arun Jaitley, to focus on his main job of steering the economy out of…
North Korea leader on TV without cane but still limping in sign of recovery
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s state television showed leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday walking with a limp but without a cane in the clearest indication yet that he was recovering from an unconfirmed health problem that had kept him sidelined for more …
Kurdish footballer leaves Turkey after attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An Alevi Kurdish footballer in Turkey’s top league has left the country after a racist attack apparently motivated by his support on social media for Kurds fighting to defend a Syrian border town from Islamic State militants.
Senior Myanmar officials guilty of war crimes, Harvard report says
YANGON (Reuters) – An independent investigation by the Harvard Law School has found that troops commanded by Myanmar’s powerful interior minister and two other senior officials tortured and killed civilians over six years ago while fighting an ethnic r…
Uncurbed sectarianism prompted village attack say Saudi Shi’ites
Al-Dalwah SAUDI ARABIA (Reuters) – On Monday Sunni militants attacked a Shi’ite Muslim village in Saudi Arabia and left eight people dead. By Wednesday, grief among the villagers was mixed with anger about a culture of sectarianism they say paved the w…
Police investigate English town’s plans to burn effigy of Scot’s leader
LONDON (Reuters) – Police are investigating plans to burn an effigy of defeated Scottish nationalist leader Alex Salmond at bonfire night celebrations in a southern English town after complaints of racism.
NATO chief vows no loss of gains in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday reaffirmed the alliance’s commitment to stabilizing Afghanistan and ensuring that the gains made are preserved after the foreign combat mission ends in 2014.
Boko Haram steals dynamite in raid on Lafarge Nigeria plant: sources
DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants raided a cement factory owned by Lafarge subsidiary Ashaka Cement and seized dynamite from a quarry, witnesses and a security source said on Thursday.
