Foreign Minister Timmermans is Dutch EU commissioner candidate: Dutch paper
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans has been put forward by the Netherlands as the Dutch candidate for a European Commission post, a newspaper reported on Monday.
North Korea tightens grip on phone SIM cards used by tourists
SEOUL (Reuters) – In a move that makes it harder for North Koreans to gain illicit access to the global Internet, North Korea now only allows mobile phone SIM cards used by tourists to be active for the duration of their visit, tourism sources told Reu…
Dozens of Turkish police detained over ‘anti-government plot’: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Dozens of Turkish police officers, including a former chief of a police financial unit, were detained on Monday in a fresh wave of arrests over allegations that officers were involved in plotting against the government, local media…
China’s AgBank chairman to assume provincial party post: government website
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The chairman of Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgBank), the country’s third-largest listed lender, plans to take on the role of deputy party secretary in the country’s northern province of Jilin.
Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least four
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS France (Reuters) – A building in a Paris suburb collapsed after an explosion on Sunday morning, killing two children and two women, and teams were searching the rubble for four other people still missing by evening.
Jubilant Iraqi forces break two-month siege of Amerli: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces backed by Shi’ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants and entered the northern town, officials said.
Jubilant Iraqi forces break two-month siege of Amerli: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces backed by Shi’ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants and entered the northern town, officials said.
Israel claims West Bank land for possible settlement use, draws U.S. rebuke
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years, drawing Palestinian condemnation and a U.S. rebuke.
Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least 4
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS France (Reuters) – A building in a Paris suburb collapsed after an explosion on Sunday morning, killing two children and two women, and teams were searching the rubble for four other people still missing by evening.
Putin calls for talks on east Ukraine ‘statehood’; rebels fire on ship
MOSCOW/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for immediate talks on the “statehood” of southern and eastern Ukraine, although his spokesman said this did not mean Moscow now endorsed rebel calls for independence…
