Tunisian forces say kill local Islamic State commander in clashes
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian special forces have killed a senior commander of an Islamic State affiliate during clashes with the group in a central, mountainous region, the Tunisian Ministry of Defense said on Thursday.
Rescued Chibok girl to meet Nigerian president
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A Nigerian schoolgirl rescued more than two years after being taken captive by Boko Haram militants will meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday amid hopes she can help shed light on the whereabouts of more than 200 other missing girls.
Iraq says it retakes western town of Rutba from Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s military said on Thursday it had retaken the remote western town of Rutba from Islamic State in an operation launched this week to cut off the militants’ supply route to neighboring Syria.
EU’s Mogherini sees Russia sanctions being renewed
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini expects sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine to be renewed in July, she told a German newspaper on Thursday.
Netanyahu pulls off coalition surprise to upend Israeli politics
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – “He’s a magician, he’s a magician,” the partisan crowd chanted as a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu strode into his party headquarters a little over a year ago to declare a come-from-behind victory in Israel’s election.
Jihadists mobilize in Syria as peacemaking unravels
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Jihadi militants in Syria including al Qaeda are mobilizing again for all-out war against President Bashar al-Assad, taking advantage of the collapse of peace talks to eclipse nationalist rival insurgents that signed on to a faltering truce.
Australian PM faces fallout over minister’s ‘xenophobic’ refugee claim
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in the midst of a tight election campaign, came under fire on Thursday for backing his immigration minister over claims resettling “illiterate and innumerate” refugees would strain the social safety network.
UK Supreme Court upholds press ban in celebrity threesome case
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an injunction preventing the English press from naming a celebrity who was involved in a much publicized extra-marital threesome.
Incoming Taiwan government likely to infuriate China from the word go
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s new ruling party is set for an early clash with China over the first major item on its legislative agenda – a bill that could paralyze trade between the two rivals and which Beijing has already condemned.
Chinese official’s HK visit ‘important breakthrough’: Global Times
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong visit by a top leader of China’s Communist Party, which included talks with pro-democracy lawmakers, was an “important breakthrough” in relations between Beijing and the city, an influential Chinese newspaper said on Thursday.
Turkish military says helicopter may have been downed by Kurdish militants
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish armed forces said on Thursday that a military helicopter that crashed a week ago, during clashes that killed eight soldiers and two pilots, may have been brought down by Kurdish militants with a ground-to-air missile.
Atomic bomb survivors: Obama apology nice, but priority is disarmament
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese atomic bomb survivors say an apology from President Barack Obama for the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima would be welcome, but their priority is on ridding the world of all nuclear weapons forever.
Syrian government force, Hezbollah allies seize town near Damascus: monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and allies including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters seized a strategic town southeast of Damascus from insurgents on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
Rescued from child labor, Indian fishermen’s daughters ace school exams
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded labor when she was 11, Shalini has just graduated from high school in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
India’s ruling party leads in border state poll as votes tallied
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party was leading on Thursday in a race to win an election in the northeastern state of Assam, a victory that would help rebuild some momentum after poll losses by his Hindu nationalist party last year.
Seven die in Afghanistan crash of Azerbaijan’s Silk Way freight plane
BAKU (Reuters) – A freight plane of Azerbaijan’s Silk Way airline crashed on Wednesday in Afghanistan, killing seven of its nine crew, Azerbaijan’s civil aviation administration said.
EgyptAir says flight from Paris to Cairo missing with 66 on board
CAIRO (Reuters) – National carrier EgyptAir said a plane carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo went missing on Thursday, disappearing from radar over the Mediterranean Sea.
Chinese, Germans the most welcoming of refugees, Russians the least: survey
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – China is the most welcoming country when it comes to refugees, according to a new survey of citizens’ attitudes published on Thursday, with Germany ranking second and Britain third.
Obama, Turkey’s Erdogan discuss Syria, fight against Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Wednesday with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan about the war in Syria and efforts to defeat Islamic State militants, the White House said in a statement.
Indonesia’s ‘red scare’ stokes unease over military’s growing influence
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s military elite are openly stoking public anxiety about communism, gays and other ‘foreign influences’, a drive critics say is aimed at seizing a greater role in civilian affairs of the world’s third-largest democracy.
China rethinks its sporting obsession as Rio Olympics approach
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Change is unfolding at Shanghai’s No.1 Children’s Sports School Pudong New Area, a small cog in a state-run machine that has churned out Chinese Olympic champions for three and a half decades.
For European banks, U.S. assurances on Iran come with asterisks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has a simple answer for executives of European banks scratching their heads over whether it is now legal for them to do business with Iran: Just ask.
Bomb kills nine Iraqi soldiers during raid south of Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nine Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine more wounded on Wednesday when a house rigged with explosives blew up south of Baghdad during a raid of suspected Islamic State militants, two army sources said.
Chinese jets intercept U.S. military plane over South China Sea: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a U.S. military aircraft on Tuesday over the South China Sea, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Turkey angered over EU envoy’s remark on EU migrant deal: sources
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey summoned the top European Union envoy in the country on Tuesday to complain about comments he made last week on the migration deal between Ankara and the EU, Turkish foreign ministry sources said on Wednesday.
Libya forces say pushing back Islamic State fighters
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Libya’s U.N.-backed unity government pushed Islamic State fighters back toward their stronghold of Sirte on Wednesday, regaining more ground they had lost to the militants earlier this month, a military spokesman said.
Targeted Myanmar tycoon may profit from U.S. sanctions changes
YANGON (Reuters) – Standing among the party seeing off Myanmar’s new president as he left for Russia on Wednesday was leading businessman Htun Myint Naing, better known as Steven Law.
Iran’s IRGC says many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Wednesday many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s war against “terrorism”, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
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