Assassination, airport shelling deepen Libya’s chaos
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Several shells hit the terminal of Libya’s main airport on Thursday as rival militias fought in Tripoli for a fifth day, and gunmen assassinated a female politician in the east.
UK summons Spanish envoy over ‘provocative’ Gibraltar naval activity
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Thursday it had summoned Spain’s ambassador to protest over what it described as “provocative” activity by the Spanish navy near the disputed territory of Gibraltar.
UK coalition strained as Deputy PM likens Cameron’s policies to Putin’s
LONDON (Reuters) – Strains in Britain’s two-party coalition surfaced on Thursday as David Cameron’s governing partner likened the prime minister’s policies to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other “tyrants”.
UK apologises for scheme that let Irish bomb suspect go free
LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – A British scheme to inform Irish nationalist militants they were no longer wanted by police was flawed, the government said on Thursday, apologising for a policy that allowed a suspected bomber to walk free earlier this year….
Hezbollah and al Qaeda clash on Syria-Lebanon frontier
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah and the Syrian branch of al Qaeda have fought a deadly five-day battle in Syria near the border with Lebanon, a Hezbollah source and a fighter for the Nusra Front said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes; appoints foreign experts
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president has extended the terms of a commission investigating missing people and possible war crimes in the country’s 26-year civil war, bringing in foreign experts for the first time to advise on the inquiry, the gover…
Shootout in Pakistan’s Lahore, northwestern bus blast kill nine
LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) – Two Pakistani policemen and a militant were killed in a shootout in the city of Lahore on Thursday a short distance from the prime minister’s family home, police said.
Seven NATO countries end Black Sea war games
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Seven NATO countries completed naval exercises in the Black Sea on Thursday, officials said, in a signal of the alliance’s resolve to support east European members who have been unnerved by Russia’s behavior in the Ukraine crisis….
Kosovo lawmakers wrestle for control of parliament
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Kosovo wrestled for control of parliament on Thursday, as it sat for the first time since an inconclusive June election triggered a constitutional crisis unprecedented in the young state’s short history.
Islamic State seizes gas field east of Syria’s Homs: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Militant group Islamic State seized control of the Sha’ar gas field east of the central Syrian city of Homs after an assault against government forces on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
