PKK militants call on Turkish Kurds to fight Islamic State in Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish PKK rebels, who have spent three decades fighting for autonomy for Turkey’s Kurds, called on Thursday for the youth of the country’s mostly Kurdish southeast to join the fight against Islamic State militants in northern Syr…
Australian PM says police raids follow IS linked beheading plot
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Militants connected with radical group Islamic State were planning to behead a member of the public in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday, after hundreds of police raided homes in a sweeping counter-terrorism oper…
Libya’s elected parliament rejects PM’s new cabinet as oil sector takes hit
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s elected parliament has rejected the new cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, dealing a fresh blow to the acting premier whose government was forced to flee the capital Tripoli last month after it was taken ov…
Gaza war spurs more Palestinians to risk dangerous migration to Europe
GAZA (Reuters) – A devastating war with Israel has swollen the number of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip joining a perilous exodus of migrants fleeing the Middle East and Africa in search of a better life in Europe.
China not warlike, says Xi, as border standoff dominates India trip
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – China is not a warlike nation, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, during a rare trip to neighbor India that was dominated by a standoff on a barren Himalayan plateau between soldiers from the world’s two most populous nations….
Congolese government clashes with bishops over third-term debate
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s government accused Catholic bishops of pandering to foreign influence on Thursday after they issued an open letter opposing a possible constitutional revision to let President Joseph Kabila seek a thi…
Venezuelan cartoonist says fired for health satire
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan cartoonist said she was fired from her newspaper for a caricature that used the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez’s signature to satirize the state of healthcare.
Norwegian mass killer Breivik getting ever more extreme, father fears
OSLO (Reuters) – The father of Anders Behring Breivik, who massacred 77 people in central Oslo and at an island summer camp in 2011, said on Thursday his son’s fascist, anti-immigrant views seemed to be getting ever more extreme in jail.
Poland’s PM designate says will be personnel changes in cabinet
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s prime minister-designate Ewa Kopacz said she is ready to present her cabinet to President Bronislaw Komorowski later on Thursday and that there will be some personnel changes.
After Mahmoud Abbas, who will lead the Palestinians?
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) – Most Palestinians have known only two leaders: Yasser Arafat, the stubble-chinned firebrand fond of chequered scarves and olive fatigues, and Mahmoud Abbas, a smooth-shaven father figure who favors Western suits…
