Far right suffers Dutch surprise as EU vote begins
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s marathon parliamentary election kicked off on Thursday when Britain and the Netherlands voted, with right-wing, anti-EU parties expected to attract a surge of protest votes in many countries on a low turnout.
U.N. Security Council committee blacklists Nigeria’s Boko Haram
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council committee on al Qaeda sanctions blacklisted Nigeria’s Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Thursday after the insurgents kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls, diplomats said.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram kills 29 in village attack: sources
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram shot dead 29 farm workers as they tilled their fields in remote northeast Nigeria, a police source said on Thursday, amid a mounting insurgency increasingly targeting civ…
Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China’s troubled Xinjiang
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China’s troubled Xinjiang region killed 31 people on Thursday, state media reported, the deadliest act of violence in the region in years.
Turkish man dies after shooting during protest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A man was shot and killed on Thursday as Turkish police clashed with protesters throwing petrol bombs and stones in the Istanbul district of Okmeydani, the city’s governor and local witnesses said.
Turkish bystander dies after being shot in head during protest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A bystander who was shot in the head on Thursday during clashes between Turkish police and protesters has died from his wounds, a hospital official told Reuters.
Grenade attack on police vehicle wounds two in Kenya’s Mombasa
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – An attacker threw a grenade at a police vehicle in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Thursday, wounding an officer and a civilian, a senior official said.
Tuareg separatists seize several towns in northern Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Tuareg separatists said on Thursday they had seized several towns in northern Mali after routing government forces in fighting that threatens to plunge the desert north back into war, but said they would respect calls for a ceasefire…
Russian court demands U.S. Library of Congress hand over Jewish texts
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court demanded on Thursday that the U.S. Library of Congress hand back seven precious Jewish texts to Moscow – and, in a tit-for-tat ruling, said it should pay a massive fine for every day it delays.
Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Nabiam concedes run-off defeat
BISSAU (Reuters) – The losing candidate in a run-off election for Guinea-Bissau’s presidency, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, said on Thursday he accepted the results after initially rejecting them citing alleged fraud.
