UK’s Royal Mail sorry for D-Day landings stamp blunder
Britain’s Royal Mail apologized on Friday after historians pointed out that a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France in fact showed U.S. troops going ashore thousands of miles away weeks earlier.
Congo election monitors warn of shaky preparations, poll shows opposition in lead
Polling stations in Democratic Republic of Congo are ill-prepared for Sunday’s presidential vote, diplomats and an observer mission said, as polling released on Friday showed opposition candidate Martin Fayulu favored to win.
Islamists kill at least 10 in bid to capture northeast Nigerian lake town: residents
Islamist militants and Nigerian troops have been fighting around a fishing town on Lake Chad as the insurgents step up attacks in the run-up to a presidential election in which security is a campaign issue, the army and residents said.
Russia and Britain to start returning diplomats in January: TASS
Moscow and London have reached an agreement to return some staff to their respective embassies after they expelled dozens of diplomats early this year, TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing the Russian envoy to the UK.
Shot in the back: the dangers of being an opposition candidate in Bangladesh
At a library inside a small district court in southeastern Bangladesh, barrister Mahabub Uddin Khokon stood up to take off his coat and scrunched his white shirt up to his shoulders to reveal a back covered in bandages over several shotgun pellet wound…
Brexit won’t affect Spain-based Britons’ rights, PM Sanchez says
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez sought on Friday to reassure Britons living in Spain, saying their rights would remain unchanged after Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Syrian army deploys to Manbij after Kurdish calls to deter Turkey
The Syrian army said it had deployed forces to Manbij in northern Syria on Friday after the Kurdish YPG militia urged Damascus to protect the town, where U.S. forces operate, from the threat of a major Turkish offensive.
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels move toward Manbij front: rebel
The main Turkey-backed Syrian rebel force said on Friday that its convoys, along with Turkish forces, were moving toward the frontlines with the Syrian town of Manbij, in “full readiness… to start military operations to liberate” the town.
Unidentified gunmen kill 10 gendarmes in Burkina Faso
Gunmen killed 10 Burkinabe gendarmes in a village near the Malian border this week, Burkina Faso’s security ministry said, in a further sign of deteriorating security in a country once seen as one of the region’s more stable.
Insight: Collapse in India’s onion prices could leave Modi smarting in election
A spike in the price of onions has led to the ouster of governments in Indian elections in the past. Now, prices of the staple have collapsed, and many impoverished farmers are saying they will make Prime Minister Narendra Modi pay in next year’s gener…
