Ukraine crisis highlights NATO defense spending problem: Hagel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia’s actions in Ukraine have shattered the myth of European security in the post-Cold War era and underscored the danger NATO allies have created by failing to meet their defense spending pledges, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck…
German government warns against inviting Snowden to testify in parliamentary inquiry
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government advised against calling former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to Berlin as a witness in a parliamentary inquiry into U.S. spying, saying this would cause damage to relations with Washing…
Eleven Muslims killed in sectarian attacks in India’s Assam
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Suspected tribal rebels have shot dead 11 Muslims in attacks in India’s northeasterly tea-growing state of Assam, where tension has run high during a drawn-out general election, officials said on Friday.
Greenland commission will probe Danish colonial abuses
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland plans to force former colonial ruler Denmark to confront past human rights abuses against the island’s indigenous Inuit people such as the confiscation of ancestral hunting grounds, its prime minister said.
Gunmen kill 15 in raid on Central African Republic border town
BANGUI (Reuters) – Gunmen killed about 15 people, including children, in an attack on a town in Central African Republic near the border with Chad, a local official and aid workers said on Friday.
Egypt warns against travel to Saudi Arabia due to MERS virus
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Health Ministry issued a warning on Friday against children, elderly people and anyone suffering from chronic heart and chest diseases travelling to Saudi Arabia due to an outbreak there of a deadly new virus.
Yemeni forces kill five al Qaeda fighters in southern offensive: ministry
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemeni government forces killed five al Qaeda militants and wounded dozens of others in south Yemen, the defense ministry said on Friday, in the fourth day of an offensive against Islamist insurgents.
Subway trains crash in South Korean capital, 200 people hurt
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea suffered its second serious transport accident in just over two weeks on Friday when a subway train in the capital, Seoul, crashed into a train at a station, injuring 200 people although no one was killed.
World Bank approves $12 billion, five-year loan for Pakistan: finance minister
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The World Bank has approved a $12 billion loan for cash-strapped Pakistan that will be disbursed over five years, the country’s finance ministry and the global lender said on Friday.
Eleven Muslims killed in sectarian attacks in India’s Assam
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Suspected tribal rebels in India shot dead 11 Muslims, including two women, in attacks in the northeastern tea-growing state of Assam where tension has run high during an election, officials said on Friday.
