Kerry says some nations offer ground troops to fight Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was “extremely encouraged” by pledges of military assistance against Islamic State militants by countries inside and outside the Middle East and that some nations had offered ground troo…
Deaths from Nigeria church guest house collapse rise to 41
LAGOS (Reuters) – The number of people killed in the collapse of a guest house under construction at the Lagos headquarters of one of Nigeria’s best-known Christian evangelical pastors rose to 41 on Sunday, rescuers said, as they worked to clear the wr…
North Korea sentences U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labor
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labor for committing “hostile acts” as a tourist to the country, a statement carried by state media said on Sunday.
A week on from flood, 150,000 still stranded in Indian Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Indian Kashmir’s worst flood in over a century and fears grew on Sunday of an outbreak of diseases from vast fields of stagnant brown water.
Fresh sanctions will freeze big foreign oil projects in Russia
By Olesya Astakhova, Katya Golubkova and Vladimir Soldatkin
EU legal fog lets Scots bank on politics to keep them in
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – If Scots vote for independence, it will be in part because they believe assurances that their small Atlantic peninsula can quit the United Kingdom without ever leaving the secure embrace of the European Union.
Islamic State attracts female jihadis from U.S. heartland
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement is investigating a new phenomenon of women from the American heartland joining Islamic State as President Barack Obama vows to cut off the militants’ recruiting at home.
Thousands of activists stage ‘black cloth’ march in Hong Kong
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of pro-democracy activists clad in black marched silently through Hong Kong on Sunday, holding banners saying they felt betrayed and angry at Beijing’s refusal to allow fully-democratic elections for the city’s next chie…
Hardest yet to come for France’s Hollande
PARIS (Reuters) – A bitter public attack by a jilted ex-partner, a cabinet melt-down and the admission of broken economic promises have meant an uncomfortable three weeks for Francois Hollande.
Iraq PM says he will protect civilians after U.S.-Iraq air strikes against IS
BAGHDAD/CAIRO (Reuters) – Iraq’s Shi’ite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday that he had ordered his air force to halt strikes on civilian areas, following attacks by both Iraqi and U.S. jets in large areas of the country held by Islamic St…
