UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over opposition official’s arrest
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain summoned Ethiopia’s chargé d’affaires on Monday to raise its concerns about the arrest of a British national being held in Ethiopia who has been sentenced to death over his involvement with an opposition political group.
Erdogan dominates Turkey’s uneven presidential race
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Cheers erupted from the packed stands when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan scored his third goal in a celebrity soccer match to mark the opening of an Istanbul stadium.
Kurds ask U.S. court to scrap seizure order, allow crude delivery
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq asked a U.S. court on Monday to throw out an order to seize some 1 million barrels of disputed crude oil and allow the cargo to be freely delivered in Texas.
Karzai rejects claim deputy was involved in vote fraud
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday rejected allegations that one of his deputies had orchestrated a fraud against a longtime rival in Afghanistan’s recent presidential election.
Armenia sees no threat of war with Azerbaijan yet over Karabakh
YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of stoking tensions over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan after a recurrence of fighting last week, although Yerevan said there was no immediate thr…
Spanish police arrest two young women suspected of heading for jihad
MADRID (Reuters) – Two young Spanish women, one of them under 18, have been arrested in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla on suspicion of trying to join an Islamic State militant cell in the Middle East, the Interior Ministry said on Monday….
South Africa detains one of Britain’s “most wanted fugitives”
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African court on Monday remanded convicted British drug trafficker and fraudster Martin Evans, a phoney ostrich farmer who was on the run for three years before his arrest in Johannesburg at the weekend.
Tunneling through triangle of death, Islamic State aims at Baghdad from south
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, Islamic State insurgents are getting dangerously close to Baghdad with the support of heavily-armed Sunni tribesmen, Iraqi security and intellige…
Turks abroad show little interest in presidential election
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turnout among Turkish expatriates voting abroad for the first time fell short of expectations, officials said on Monday, with just 8 percent of those eligible taking part in a presidential election which Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan…
First probe of China factory blast finds firm responsible: Xinhua
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – The preliminary findings of a probe into an explosion at an auto parts factory that killed 75 people on Saturday show that the company bears the main responsibility for the incident, state media reported on Monday.
