Kuwait’s ruler makes rare visit to Iran to build ties
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwait’s emir began a visit to Iran on Sunday, the first by a ruler of the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state since the 1979 Islamic revolution, underscoring improving ties between Tehran and its Arab neighbors.
In Europe, Obama gets second chance to explain his Russia policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama heads to Warsaw, Brussels, Paris and Normandy this week where he is expected to elaborate on the U.S. commitment to counter Russian moves against Ukraine and reassure nervous allies the United States has th…
Jewish museum shooting suspect spent year in Syria: prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) – The 29-year-old Frenchman arrested on Friday over the fatal shooting of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum spent a year in Syria after becoming radicalised during the last of five stays in jail in France, a prosecutor said on Sun…
Sister of slain Pakistani woman says her husband killed her
LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) – The family of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight accused her husband of killing her, in stark contrast to his version of a story that has shocked people around the world.
Cameroon troops kill 40 Boko Haram militants in far north: state radio
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon security forces killed some 40 Boko Haram militants in clashes in the country’s far north, state radio said on Sunday, shortly after the release of two Italian priests and a Canadian nun suspected to have been held by the I…
Lebanon says Syrians who return will lose refugee status
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon has told more than a million Syrian refugees they will lose their refugee status if they cross back into Syria, two days before a presidential election in which Syrian officials have urged many to vote at polling stations on …
Huge Thai security force deployment stifles coup protests
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s military government sent thousands of troops and police into central Bangkok on Sunday, stifling any mass dissent against the army’s coup on May 22 and limiting protesters to small gatherings held mostly around shopping m…
Nearly 800 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest month this year: U.N.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nearly 800 people were killed in violence across Iraq in May, the United Nations said on Sunday, making it the deadliest month so far this year.
NATO to discuss reinforcing troops in Poland-German defense ministry
BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO defense ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing their forces in Poland when they meet in Brussels this week, a spokesman for the German defense ministry said on Sunday.
Once on the edge of defeat, Syria’s Assad runs again for president
BEIRUT (Reuters) – It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad’s enemies thought he was finished.
