Cuba experiments with wholesale market for farmers
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba opened its first wholesale market for farmers in decades on Sunday, an experiment limited to agricultural supplies in one area and the latest market-oriented reform for the communist-run island.
France arrests suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shooting
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A 29-year-old Frenchman believed to have returned recently from fighting with Islamist militant rebels in Syria has been arrested for the killing of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum last month, prosecutors said on Sunday.
Warplane targets Islamist base, hits university in Libya’s Benghazi
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan warplane under the command of a renegade former general targeted an Islamist militia base in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday but instead hit a university building, witnesses said.
Slovenia to hold snap election on July 13 – president Pahor
LJUBLA (Reuters) – Slovenia will hold a snap parliamentary election on July 13, President Borut Pahor declared on Sunday.
Kuwait’s ruler makes rare visit to Iran to build ties
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwait’s emir began a visit to Iran on Sunday, the first by a ruler of the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state since the 1979 Islamic revolution, underscoring improving ties between Tehran and its Arab neighbors.
In Europe, Obama gets second chance to explain his Russia policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama heads to Warsaw, Brussels, Paris and Normandy this week where he is expected to elaborate on the U.S. commitment to counter Russian moves against Ukraine and reassure nervous allies the United States has th…
Jewish museum shooting suspect spent year in Syria: prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) – The 29-year-old Frenchman arrested on Friday over the fatal shooting of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum spent a year in Syria after becoming radicalised during the last of five stays in jail in France, a prosecutor said on Sun…
Sister of slain Pakistani woman says her husband killed her
LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) – The family of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight accused her husband of killing her, in stark contrast to his version of a story that has shocked people around the world.
Cameroon troops kill 40 Boko Haram militants in far north: state radio
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon security forces killed some 40 Boko Haram militants in clashes in the country’s far north, state radio said on Sunday, shortly after the release of two Italian priests and a Canadian nun suspected to have been held by the I…
Lebanon says Syrians who return will lose refugee status
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon has told more than a million Syrian refugees they will lose their refugee status if they cross back into Syria, two days before a presidential election in which Syrian officials have urged many to vote at polling stations on …
