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…
Afghans battle for strategic Helmand after U.S. troops pull out
LASHKAR GAH Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan forces battled the Taliban in southern Helmand province on Monday for a second week, officials and residents said on Monday, seeking to reassert control over a strategic district just weeks after the departure…
Thousands denounce Japanese PM Abe’s security shift
TOKYO (Reuters) – Thousands of people marched in Tokyo on Monday to denounce a landmark shift in security policy by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ease constitutional constraints that have kept the military from fighting abroad since World War T…
Mass Hong Kong protest looms as democracy push gathers steam
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong is bracing for its largest protest in more than a decade after nearly 800,000 voted for full democracy in an unofficial referendum, a move likely to stoke anti-China sentiment in the former British colony.
Russia protests over shooting of cameraman in Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia protested to Ukraine on Monday and accused it of undermining a shaky ceasefire with pro-Moscow separatists after a Russian television cameraman was shot dead in eastern Ukraine.
Syria fighters hail declaration of Islamic ‘caliphate’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria’s northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic “caliphate” after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq, a monitoring service said.
