Libyan air controllers strike to protest against airport shelling
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Air controllers in western Libya have gone on strike to protest against the shelling of Tripoli’s main airport, halting flights in much of the oil producing country, an official said on Thursday.
EU leaders fail to agree on top jobs, to decide end August
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders failed to agree at a summit on Wednesday on sharing out a package of top jobs in the 28-nation bloc, including a new foreign policy chief, and postponed the decision until late August.
At least five Tunisia soldiers dead after militant attack
TUNIS (Reuters) – At least five Tunisian soldiers were killed after gunmen attacked military checkpoints near the Algerian border, where the army has been conducting an operation to flush out Islamist militant fighters, the TAP state news agency and a …
Shelling kills four boys on Gaza beach; Israel, Hamas set five-hour truce
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce reques…
Kerry, Hagel to visit India to push strategic ties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – America’s top diplomat and the head of its Defense Department will visit India in coming weeks seeking to revitalize a relationship the United States sees as a crucial counterbalance in Asia to an increasingly assertive China.
Iran, powers seek to agree terms for extending nuclear talks: diplomats
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers are working to finalize the terms of a likely extension in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program beyond a July 20 deadline and an announcement may come as early as Friday, Western diplomats said.
Iraq Sunni insurgency seeks end to Shi’te political domination
AMMAN (Reuters) – Sunni insurgents and tribal leaders said on Wednesday after a closed meeting they would keep fighting until they take over the Iraqi capital and bring down a U.S. imposed political order that brought Shi’ites to rule the country and m…
Honduras wants ‘mini-Marshall plan’ for U.S. aid on migrants
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran officials on Wednesday called for U.S. aid to Central America to reduce violence that has fueled a surge of child migration to the United States, with the foreign minister calling for a “mini-Marshall plan” to attack th…
U.N. Security Council threatens action against South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council warned on Wednesday it is ready to consider “appropriate measures” against warring parties in South Sudan if they do not stop the violence in the world’s youngest nation and negotiate a transitional …
Russia set to reopen Soviet-era spy post on Cuba: source
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has reached a provisional agreement with Cuba to reopen a big Soviet-era base on the Caribbean island from which it once spied in the United States, a Russian security source said on Wednesday.
