Crimean critics call foul as region votes in first Russian election
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Six months after Russia annexed Crimea, residents of the Black Sea peninsula cast their first votes in a Russian election – an election many of them are calling unfair and undemocratic.
At a landmark Berlin rally, Merkel vows to fight anti-Semitism
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will do all it can to fight anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech on Sunday, following a surge of abuse against Jews and spreading anti-Israeli sentiment aroused by the Gaza conflict.
U.S. sees Middle East help fighting IS, Britain cautious after beheading
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Washington said countries in the Middle East had offered to join air strikes against Islamic State militants and Australia said it would send troops, but Britain held back even after the group beheaded a British hostage an…
UK’s Cameron resists calls for air strikes despite hostage killing
LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Britain resisted pressure on Sunday to join the United States in announcing air strikes against Islamic State after the militant group beheaded David Haines, a British hostage, and threatened to kill another Briton.
Al Qaeda denies decline, acknowledges ‘mistakes’ by its branches
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda dismissed as “lies” a U.S. assessment that it is in decline, but a defiant online message issued by the network on Sunday made no mention of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group widely seen as its rival for the leadership of glob…
Post-war counseling awaits Gaza children going back to school
GAZA (Reuters) – Some 500,000 children returned on Sunday to school in the Gaza Strip, where many will be given psychological counseling before regular studies begin after a devastating 50-day war between Palestinian militants and Israel.
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.
