DIFFA, Niger (Reuters) – A wave of attacks by Islamist insurgents Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and the islands of Lake Chad has forced tens of thousands across the border to Niger’s arid southeastern region of Diffa, worsening a dire humanitarian si…
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Twin suicide attacks kill at least 13 in Cameroon: sources
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Twin suicide bomb attacks in the capital of Cameroon’s far northern region Maroua killed at least 13 people on Wednesday, senior Cameroon military sources told Reuters.
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Under Kremlin pressure, ‘undesirable’ U.S. charity pulls out of Russia
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A U.S.-based non-governmental organization has become the latest casualty in what campaigners say is a global tightening of restrictions on charitable activity by authoritarian governments, by deciding to close its…
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Serbian PM hosts Bosnian leaders, cools tempers after mob attack
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s prime minister said on Wednesday he had already forgotten a mob attack on him in Bosnia 11 days ago as he hosted Bosnia’s three-man presidency in a visit designed to cool tempers between the ex-Yugoslav republics.
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China returns dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s passport after four years
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese dissident artist and free speech advocate Ai Weiwei said that authorities in Beijing returned his passport on Wednesday, more than four years after it was confiscated following his 81-day secret detention.
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Dozens killed in tribal clashes in biggest city in southern Libya
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Dozens have been killed in clashes between two tribes in the biggest city in southern Libya, officials said on Tuesday as a security vacuum grew in a remote corner of the oil producer.
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Chad’s Habre crimes against humanity trial adjourned until September 7
DAKAR (Reuters) – The trial of Chad’s former ruler Hissene Habre on war crimes charges has been adjourned until September 7 after the presiding judge appointed three new lawyers on Tuesday for the defense.
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Greece reopens banks, starts repaying some debts
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece reopened its banks and ordered billions of euros owed to international creditors to be repaid on Monday in the first signs of a return to normal after last week’s deal to agree a tough new package of bailout reforms.
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In West Bank, Palestinians count down to their village’s demolition
SUSIYA, West Bank (Reuters) – Sitting under a fig tree to escape the searing sun, Jihad Nuwaja looks out on the only land he knows – the dry expanse of the Hebron hills in the southern West Bank. Within days, his home is set to be demolished and he, hi…
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U.S., allies target Islamic State with 16 strikes in Iraq, nine in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces targeted Islamic State militants with 16 air strikes in Iraq and nine in Syria on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
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