Ukraine leaders meets security chiefs as ceasefire end nears
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called a meeting of his security chiefs on Monday to decide whether to extend a shaky ceasefire in the war against separatists that was due to lapse at 10 p.m. (1500 ET).
North Korea says to try two detained U.S. citizens
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Monday it would put two U.S. tourists on trial for committing crimes against the state, dimming any hopes among their families that they would soon be released.
U.S. asks North Korea to release two U.S. citizens said to be tried
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department, citing “humanitarian concern,” asked North Korea on Monday to release two Americans who North Korean official media said would be put on trial for committing crimes against the state.
U.S. urges Israeli-Palestinian restraint, security cooperation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department declined on Monday to confirm reports the bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers had been found, and urged Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint and continue security cooperation.
Government worker killed in second blast in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An official with the Somali transport ministry was killed by a bomb blast in the capital of Mogadishu on Monday, hours after at least two people were killed and seven wounded when another bomb blast ripped through a busy market, o…
Gunmen kidnap leading Libyan Islamist party figure
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped a leading member of a Libyan Islamist party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a party spokesman said on Monday, in a further sign of lawlessness crippling the oil-producing country.
Poverty, violence drive Central American exodus to U.S.
EL GUANTILLO Honduras (Reuters) – Pregnant and with a young child in her arms, 17-year-old Andy Lizette Navarro says she has lost hope for the future in her semi-deserted mountain hamlet deep in rural Honduras, and dreams of America.
China charges four in Kunming attack, sentences 113 on terror crimes
BEIJING (Reuters) – China charged four people in connection with a deadly attack at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming in March, state media said on Monday, a case that helped spur a crackdown on what officials have called an upsurge…
Around 30 migrants found dead on boat near Sicily
ROME (Reuters) – As many as 30 corpses were found on a boat packed with migrants off the coast of Sicily, Italy’s navy said on Monday after rescuing thousands of people trying to cross from North Africa over the weekend.
Presidential race highlights Erdogan’s reshaping of Turkish politics
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – A quick glance at the emerging candidates for Turkey’s first direct presidential poll illustrates the dramatic change wrought in the country by Tayyip Erdogan’s 11-year premiership; an old secularist elite has yielded the st…
