Kerry says he’s seen raw data suggesting Syria used chlorine in attacks
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday he had seen raw data suggesting Syrian government forces had used chlorine gas in the country’s civil war, but added it had not been verified.
Colombian presidential election front-runners seen in dead heat: poll
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s presidential election will likely go into a closely fought run-off in which opposition candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga is seen locked in a statistical tie with incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos, a poll released on Thursd…
Yemen president says country in open war against al Qaeda
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen is in open war against al Qaeda and will go after the militants wherever they are, the president said on Thursday, as his country faces retaliatory attacks by insurgents bent on establishing an Islamist emirate in the Arabian pe…
In opinion shift, poll says most Britons would vote to stay in EU
LONDON (Reuters) – British public opinion on Europe has shifted in the last year and a half with most people now wanting to stay in the European Union rather than leave it, a poll published a week before European elections showed on Thursday.
U.S. releases 10 Pakistanis from Afghanistan’s Bagram prison
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have quietly released 10 Pakistani detainees from Bagram Prison in Afghanistan, lawyers said on Thursday, after the men had spent years in prison without trial.
Algeria’s Bouteflika offers reforms to skeptical opposition
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, newly re-elected despite suffering a stroke last year, has proposed a raft of reforms including setting a two-term presidential limit and delegating more authority to the prime minister, a go…
Resist or cooperate? Crimean Tatars split over Russian rule
BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Seventy years after their families’ mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland’s new Russian authorities or resist them?
Former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene dies at 73
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, a major figure in European politics throughout the 1990s and a renowned advocate of deeper European integration, died on Thursday aged 73, his party said.
Red Cross boosts South Sudan aid, plans first airdrops in years
GENEVA (Reuters) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it was planning its first airdrops in almost two decades and massively scaling up operations to help hundreds of thousands hit by fighting in South Sudan.
Five dead as worst floods in 120 years hit Serbia, Bosnia
SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) – The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia, killing five people, forcing hundreds out of their homes and cutting off entire towns.
