Exclusive: Syria warns U.N. – Aid delivery without consent is an attack
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria’s government warned the U.N. Security Council that delivering humanitarian aid across its borders into rebel-held areas without its consent would amount to an attack, suggesting it would have the right to retaliate agai…
U.S. to move some embassy staff from Kenya over security concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it would move some staff from its embassy in Kenya to other countries following a string of militant attacks on the country’s coast.
Pakistani woman raped, killed and hanged from tree: police
MULTAN Pakistan (Reuters) – A 20-year-old woman has been gang-raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan in a case with a chilling resemblance to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last month.
Obama urges China, neighbors to avoid escalating maritime dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday urged China and its neighbors to peacefully resolve a dispute over oil drilling in the South China Sea and avoid escalating tensions.
Two killed in Cairo clashes after Friday prayers: interior ministry
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two Egyptians were killed after Friday prayers between Islamist protesters and residents of a Cairo neighborhood, the interior ministry said in a statement.
U.S. says Thailand, Malaysia, Venezuela among worst human trafficking centers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department downgraded Thailand, Malaysia and Venezuela on Friday to its list of the world’s worst centers of human trafficking, opening up the countries to possible sanctions and dumping them in the same category a…
Car bomb in Syria’s Hama province kills 34: state news
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A car bomb in Syria’s western Hama province killed 34 and wounded more than 50, Syria’s state news agency SANA said on Friday, blaming the attack on rebels fighting forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Sarkozy allies see campaign scandal scuppering comeback
PARIS (Reuters) – Members of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s opposition UMP party are warning that he is too much of a political liability for victory in 2017 as a funding scandal over his 2012 election campaign escalates.
Israel kills Palestinian teen in escalating West Bank arrest raids
HEBRON West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday and arrested 25 people, pursuing a crackdown on Islamist militants and house-to-house searches for three Israeli teenagers who went missing ei…
NATO unlikely to grant Georgia step to membership: diplomats
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO countries, wary of antagonizing Russia, are unlikely to grant former Soviet republic Georgia a formal step towards membership of the alliance at a summit in September, NATO diplomats say.
