Egypt queries Mursi over documents ‘leaked’ to Al Jazeera: security sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt is investigating jailed ex-president Mohamed Mursi in connection with documents that judicial investigators say were leaked to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite news channel, security sources said on Thursday.
Pakistan’s powerful army steps in to resolve political crisis
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s army stepped into a political struggle between the country’s embattled prime minister and the opposition on Thursday, signaling a possible end to a crisis that has destabilized the coup-prone nation.
Exclusive: Over 100 Russian soldiers killed in single Ukraine battle – Russian rights activists
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in eastern Ukraine in a single battle this month while helping pro-Russian separatists fight Ukrainian troops, two members of the Russian presidential human rights council said on Thursday, …
Africa’s militants may be inspired by Islamic State gains, officials told
NAIROBI (Reuters) – African Islamists may be emboldened by the Islamic State’s gains in the Middle East, and local security services need to cooperate to counter the continent’s militants, African intelligence officials heard on Thursday.
Ebola toll tops 1,550, outbreak accelerates: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,552 people out of 3,069 known cases in four countries and “continues to accelerate”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
Armoured column seen in south Russia near border with Ukraine
KRASNODAROVKA Russia (Reuters) – A Reuters reporter saw on Thursday a column of armoured vehicles and dust-covered troops, one of them with an injured face, driving through the Russian steppe just across the border from a part of Ukraine which Kiev say…
France’s Hollande says Assad no ally in fight against Islamic State
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday opposition forces fighting Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq should get more Western support but ruled out seeing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as an ally.
Romania allows local party-swapping, critics see threat to democracy
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s government approved a temporary emergency ordinance on Thursday to let local administrations change political affiliations in a pre-election move it says will unblock policymaking but which critics say threatens democrac…
U.N. says ‘not possible’ to finish Afghan vote audit by September 2
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s U.N. representative told President Hamid Karzai on Thursday that the audit of a disputed election would not be finished by Sept. 2, when Karzai had hoped to see a new leader inaugurated.
U.N. says 43 Golan Heights peacekeepers seized by militants
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A group of 43 U.N. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights have been detained by militants fighting the Syrian army and the world body is working to secure their release, the United Nations said on Thursday.
